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I wouldn’t count my chickens yet. It certainly

seems like the Dems are positioned for success I wouldn’t look at this race as any sort of a signal. The candidate thst won previously held the seat. When she lost in 2016 there were almost 18000 votes cast and she lost by a couple hundred votes. This time she won pretty easily but only 5000 people showed up for the special election.

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Posted: 02/20/2018 at 9:14PM

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