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      <excerpt>...next year, saw 1,900 spots at a cost of $1 million. &#8226; Maine:&#160;The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000.  To report corrections a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. &#8226;Maine:The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000....</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...next year, saw 1,900 spots at a cost of $1 million. &#8226; Maine:&#160;The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000.  To report corrections a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.  Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000....</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.  Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000....</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON The congressional debate over health care has produced an unexpected recession windfall: a television advertising boom in the home states of pivotal lawmakers.
The multimillion-dollar effort to win votes could determine the fate of</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...1,600 spots at a cost of $600,000 targeted Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.  Maine: The home state of Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two GOP votes Democrats would like to get on the health bill, saw 870 ads at a cost of $300,000....</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a few weeks ago, after the Senate Finance Committee moved the  health care takeover bill through, the president singled out Sen.  Olympia Snowe from Maine for her &quot;courage.&quot;  Courage? I suppose that in Washington, moving a bill out  of committee constit</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...White House Chief of Staff John Podesta (seven times) and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (twice).  Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, a key figure in the congressional debate on a health care overhaul bill, made a visit, and Democratic</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...this year.&#160; Click here to been dropping by. Of course, it all depends on context, but some names that&#160;we spotted were Sen. Olympia Snowe, George Clooney, Gen. Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey (twice), and House Minority Leader John Boehner. If you can wedg</excerpt>
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