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With All the Bad News, How Can the NRCC Recruit Candidates?

  • By Stuart Rothenberg
  • Roll Call Contributing Writer
  • May 18, 2009, Midnight

Over the past few weeks, a handful of potentially strong Republican challengers have jumped into House races. Sid Leiken in Oregon, Frank Guinta in New Hampshire, Van Tran in California and Cory Gardner in Colorado, for example, look to be the kind of recruits whom Republicans didn’t get last cycle.

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