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Politics: Democrats' Grip on the South Continues to Slip

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Former President Bill Clinton, at a rally last week in Arkansas, with Chad Causey, on his right, who is running for Congress, and Dustin McDaniel, seeking re-election as state attorney general.

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Randy Altschuler, a Republican candidate in New York's First Congressional District.

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