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Published 11/5/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

The shift in power and voters clamoring for change present risks as well as opportunities for the new president and Congress. > The nation's capital woke up today to a political landscape upended by voters clamoring for change, delivering to Democrats more raw power than they have wielded in more than a quarter of a century. (link)

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