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Democratic Dreams of Big Wins in Illinois Fading

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Joe Walsh may be a cable TV favorite, but the garrulous and contentious Tea Party freshman congressman from Chicago’s suburbs should be politically dead, dead, deadski, as Michael Keaton put it in Beetlejuice.

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The fact that Walsh is very much alive heading into the final weeks of the campaign suggests a...

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