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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele faces greatly diminished projections for the party's get-out-the-vote "victory" programs. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama attended the Duke-Georgetown NCAA game on Jan. 30, 2010 with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, shakes hands with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad before their meeting in Jerusalem, Monday, July 5, 2010. Israel on Monday redefined the rules of its Gaza Strip embargo, spelling out on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House visit what will be restricted from entering the territory under a much-eased land blockade. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Sunday, July 4, 2010, during her brief visit to the ex-Soviet nation. mRS. Clinton on Sunday appealed to Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peaceful resolution of a long-running territorial dispute between the neighboring ex-Soviet states, but there were no outward signs of fresh diplomatic progress. (AP Photo/PanARMENIAN Photo)Hakobyan)
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Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski greets supporters after exit polls indicate him to be the possible winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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**FILE** Fireworks explode over Washington as the United States celebrates its 234th birthday on Sunday, July 4, 2010. Seen from left is the U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Fireworks explode over Washington as the United States celebrates its 234th birthday, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Seen from left is the U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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A woman casts her ballot during state elections in the town of Puerto Aventuras in Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Sunday July 4, 2010. A dozen Mexican states held elections Sunday after campaigning besieged by assassinations and scandals that have showcased the drug cartels' power, like in Quintana Roo where one of the main candidates for governor was arrested last month on charges of protecting two cartels. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)
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Guest John Robson wears a 12-star 'Betsy Ross' American Flag bowtie while attending U.S Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson's 4th of July Party in Ottawa on Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Pawel Dwulit)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Sunday. Mr. Biden spoke with other Iraqi leaders and said "all are going to have to play a meaningful role in this new government." (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joe Biden (left) speaks Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (right) as Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (center) looks on in Baghdad, Iraq. Biden said all political blocs must be included in the new Iraqi government in order for it to succeed. (Associated Press)
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of the conservative Law and Justice party and twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, meets supporters prior to a pre election rally in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, Gen. Ray Odierno, center, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, left, confer at the embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, second left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, third left, applaud as documents are exchanged after the signing of a protocol adjusting a 2008 missile defense agreement to meet its new shape decided by the Obama administration, in Krakow, Poland, on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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President Barack Obama, with his blazer slung over his shoulder, walks over to wish Air Force members and their families a Happy Fourth of July, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, July 2, 2010, before boarding Marine One for a trip to Camp David, Md. At left is White House photographer Pete Souza. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Uruguay's Diego Forlan celebrates after scoring a goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Uruguay and Ghana at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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**FILE** President Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah share a light moment when they met on June 29, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko laid flowers at a memorial in Kiev in 2010. Recent news suggests the Ukrainian government and the Democratic National Committee planted seeds to try to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidential election. (Associated Press/File)