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Midterm Season Begins With Primary in Illinois
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Tue, 02/02/2010 - 08:14
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In the nation’s first primary of the midterm election season, voters went to the polls on Tuesday across Illinois, President Obama’s home state, where Republicans are eager to make inroads come November, according to the New York Times.
The state’s 7.5 million registered voters will select a Democrat and a Republican to compete for the United States Senate seat once held by President Obama — a seat Democrats are desperate to retain not just to shore up their majority in the Senate but also for its symbolic importance.
Also to be chosen are party nominees for governor. That office will be up for election for the first time since Rod R. Blagojevich, who prosecutors say tried to sell to the highest bidder an appointment to Mr. Obama’s old Senate seat, was impeached and removed last year.
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