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Published 12/12/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics
The president-elect's third response to the Blagojevich corruption scandal may have been the charm.
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It took three tries in as many days for President-elect Barack Obama to roll out a strategy for defusing the crisis over Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's alleged attempt to put his old Senate seat up for sale.
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