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NRCC Bullish on Its Top Recruits

By John McArdle
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 27, 2009, Midnight

The National Republican Congressional Committee will announce today that nine challenger and open-seat candidates have impressed the committee enough with their early efforts to be bumped up to the next rung of the recently retooled “Young Guns” campaign program.

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