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Special Election in Louisiana Proves Politics Is Still Local

By Donna Brazile
Roll Call Contributing Writer
May 6, 2008, Midnight

Louisiana voters just gave folks inside the Beltway a powerful reminder that former Speaker Tip O’Neill (D-Mass.) knew whereof he spoke: All politics is local.

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