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Bob Benenson’s Jigsaw Politics: The Top 5 Senate Vulnerables, Revisited and Revised

By Bob Benenson and CQ Staff
Posted August 15, 2008 at 12:00am

federal indictment
according to local news reports
here

Top 5 Vulnerable Senate Seats

will be the keynote speaker
the most recent poll
narrowly winning a bruising primary
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich
federal prosecutors charged
jumping from a virtual tossup
Colorado.

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