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Assistant poll captain Glinder Barnes (left) helps Mattie B. Butts (right) cast her vote at Precinct 116 inside the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Assistant poll captain Glinder Barnes (second from right) watches as Mattie B. Butts (left), Marion Ross (second from left) and Teresa Stuart (right) turn out to cast their vote at Precinct 116 inside the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Posters for Ward 8 D.C. Council candidates surround former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson (second from left), who is running for a council seat from the ward, as he hugs Kathy Arnold, a supporter of incumbent council member Marion Barry, also a Democrat, outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Also pictured is Jasmine Westbrook (left), a Howard University sophomore volunteering with Mr. Patterson, and Craig Leak (right), a volunteer with council candidate Sandra Seegers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson (right), running for a D.C. Council seat from the ward, and Melvin Chandler (left), a volunteer with Mr. Patterson, leave after Mr. Patterson casts his vote at Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson, running for D.C. Council, casts his vote at Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson, running for a D.C. Council seat from the ward, gives Jasmine Westbrook (center), a Howard University sophomore volunteering with Mr. Patterson, a shirt to wear outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on election day, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Voter Bernette Green (left) passes a gantlet of campaign volunteers as she makes her way along Alabama Avenue Southeast to cast her vote at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A poster of incumbent D.C. Council member Marion Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, can be seen behind volunteers for his opponent, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Sandra Seegers, outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on primary election day, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A man walks in to vote at the precinct at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Michele Hamlett-Crayon is joined by her granddaughter Keyasia Crayon, 2 1/2, as she votes at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Voters trickle in at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Voting signs cover the handrails at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **

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A voter passes a gantlet of campaign supporters as she makes her way to her voting precinct at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Posters of Shiite religious leaders Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr (right) and his relative Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr (left) are on display in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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President Obama speaks April 3, 2012, at the Associated Press luncheon during the ASNE Convention in Washington. (Associated Press)

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell still has to rule on the appeal of Saints coach Sean Payton, who was suspended for the 2012 season. (Associated Press)

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Pope Benedict XVI arrives for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, April 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Catholic priests hold palm fronds at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, April 1, 2012. For Christians, Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton leaves the NFL owners meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. A person familiar with the decision says that Saints coach Sean Payton will file an appeal of his season-long suspension with the NFL on Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)