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Redistricting Has Doomed Democrats Until at Least 2012

Not long ago, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) boasted to a meeting of the Democratic National Committee that Democrats would win back the House and Senate in 2006 and elect the first woman Speaker. Pelosi’s prediction may have drawn cheers from the partisan crowd; but after the November elections, she is more likely to find herself trying to explain another election loss to her colleagues than measuring the Speaker’s office for new drapes.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.
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