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    Key Senate Races Keep Republican Hopes Alive

    With less than a month until Election Day, Republicans might well take over the Congress and Democrats are by no means certain of holding on to the Senate.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    With less than a month until Election Day, Republicans might well take over the Congress and Democrats are by no means certain of holding on to the Senate. We look at Wisconsin, where the Senate’s most liberal member is no longer counting on re-election; West Virginia, which hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate since 1958; and Connecticut, where a popular Attorney General is having trouble with a woman who made her name with professional wrestling. We hear about jobs and the economy, the President’s unpopularity, anti-incumbent sentiment and a pink marble driveway in Florida.

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    Key Senate Races Keep Republican Hopes Alive
    1. 0:00State Department Issues Travel Alert for All of Europe
    2. 7:48Key Senate Races Keep Republican Hopes AliveYou’re reading this
    3. 43:17Big Questions before the Supreme Court
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Thomas Holbrook

      Chair of the Political Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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      Peter Wallsten

      Washington Post

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      Hartford Courant

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Key Senate Races Keep Republican Hopes Alive
    1. 0:00State Department Issues Travel Alert for All of Europe
    2. 7:48Key Senate Races Keep Republican Hopes AliveYou’re reading this
    3. 43:17Big Questions before the Supreme Court
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