Politics

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers a foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, campaign at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tells a crowd of 9,000 in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sunday that President Obama has failed to fulfill his promise to cut health care costs. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns Oct. 7, 2012, at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (Associated Press)

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Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers, the GOP nominee for Senate, is counting on former Gov. Angus King and state Sen. Cynthia Dill to split the Democratic vote. (Associated Press)

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Angus King (right), a former independent Maine governor in a third-party bid for Senate, chats with James Sloan at Bath Iron Works shipyard Oct. 1. (Associated Press)

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Maine's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Cynthia Dill, speaks to teacher Ted Jordan's high school government class Tuesday in Cape Elizabeth. (Associated Press)