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Bright Anything but in Roll Call Poll on Alabama

By Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff
Sept. 2, 2008, Midnight

Despite a pair of Democratic special election victories this spring in Louisiana and Mississippi, a recent poll in Alabama’s 2nd district doesn’t bode well for House Democrats’ chances of capturing a GOP-held seat in the Deep South this November.

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