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Published 11/5/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Politico - With his party in tatters, Mitch McConnell is now the most powerful Republican in the country – the lone GOP senator who can stand in the way of an unfettered liberal agenda in Washington, and a key go-to man to rehabilitate his party.
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