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Franken emerges as GOP Public Enemy No. 1 (Politico)

 
Politico - With only a longshot court appeal standing in the way of Democrat Al Franken’s election to the Senate, Republicans are gritting their teeth and bracing for the arrival of a new senator whose every utterance will sound like nails on a chalkboard to them. (link)

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