Surprise Hurdle for Illinois Front-Runner
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 18th, 2009 4:33 am by HL
Surprise Hurdle for Illinois Front-Runner
CHICAGO, Oct. 17 — Alexi Giannoulias set out to make himself the inevitable Democratic nominee for President Obama’s old Senate seat. But resistance from an unexpected quarter has slowed him down.
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Fact Checker
In a campaign that has shifted the debate to taxes, State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, accuses Republican candidate Robert F. McDonnell of exaggerating the potential cost of Deeds’s proposals to Virginia’s families.