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David Axelrod on the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

Lynn Sweet By Lynn Sweet
   
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TWEET: From David Axelrod, Obama’s top strategist, now director at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics: “In IL-2, wonder if Debbie Halvorson would be crying foul if Toi Hutchinson had gotten out and backed HER? Very doubtful!”

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