Politics

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“It says that when people are choosing the government closest to the people, they’re choosing Republicans,” said Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the RGA. (Associated Press)

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Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks Saturday in Boston. Ms. Warren is running against Republican incumbent Sen. Scott P. Brown, who is now considered the underdog because she has linked him with Republican goals for a Democratic state. (Boston Herald via Associated Press)

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Democratic candidate, U.S. Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, makes his case during a debate against Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon in Hartford. The two are vying for the seat of retiring Joe Lieberman. (Associated Press)

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Molly Munger is a wealthy civil rights attorney and key advocate behind Proposition 38, which would raise California taxes specifically for education. (Associated Press)

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrives at Seward Park High School on the lower east side, the site of one of many public shelters set up in preparation of the storm, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

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Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Munden)

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McFarlane Toys' action figure version of Deputy Rick Grimes versus Andrew Lincoln as Mr. Grimes in The Walking Dead. (Photograph by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times)

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Delegate Neil Parrott , R-Washington Co., speaks during a news conference Thursday, June 30, 2011 in Annapolis, Md. The Republican-led group is trying to repeal the controversial new state law granting new benefits to illegal immigrants and is nearing the signatures required. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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Mayor Vincent Gray and local safety officials held a press conference Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 at the headquarters of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency to announce preparations for Sandy, the so-called "Frankenstorm" that is due to affect the Washington, D.C. metro area, with hurricane-force winds as early as 8 a.m. Monday morning. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Those who know the old “tip of the spear” insignia of the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services gathered Saturday to celebrate former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. (OSS Society)