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      <excerpt>...an election Tuesday in Massachusetts, and here's who the Mad Biologist endorses. U.S Senate: This is tough. Both Rep. Mike Capuano and Attorney General Martha Coakley have strengths and weaknesses. Both are reliable liberals, but they have different emp</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...judgment, maturity and plain common sense - which some public employees don&#8217;t seem to get. Sure, it&#8217;s OK for City Councilor Mike Ross&#8217; communications director to post on Facebook and Twitter on city time. But before she announces to the world (yes</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...deserves. Voters ought to repay that commitment by electing him over Turner. And in District 8, incumbent City Council President Mike Ross is one of the city&#8217;s brightest leaders who manages to balance the needs of his district with the needs of the ci</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>BY Mike Ross on 10/26/2009 at 12:53 Mike: With all due respect to your comments, the Patriot Act kept us safe for the remaining seven years of the Bush ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>However, he&amp;#39;ll be badly short of game time, after an 8-week ban for stamping, so Kidney may be forced to look to the 30-year old Mike Ross of Leinster who ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mike Ross (D-Ark.), a leader of the House Blue Dogs, returned from getting an earful during the August recess to say that he now opposes the public option. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... but also by former public-option opponent Blue Dog Democrat Mike Ross (D-AR), who cited Americans&amp;#39; familiarity with Medicare as changing his mind. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Fourth District Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, 1st District Rep. Marion Berry, D-Gillett, and 2nd District Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Little Rock, voted for the bill. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mike Ross (Blue Dog-AR) Heath Shuler (Blue Dog-NC) Ike Skelton (MO) John Tanner (Blue Dog-TN) Gene Taylor (Blue Dog-MS) Harry Teague (NM) Again, Blue America will be putting as much attention as we can towards helping opponents to the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>One unprincipled Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA), now know as Joseph &amp;quot;Mao,&amp;quot; voted for the bill. For all the turncoat &amp;quot;Democrats&amp;quot; who voted against: think what it means if an endangered Republican is re-elected BECAUSE of this vote. .</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... Donna Brazile, and Frank Luntz. CBS&amp;#39; Face The Nation: Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Ike Skelton (D-M). Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (D-FL), Vice Chair, Democratic National Committee and Ed Rollins, Republican  Political </excerpt>
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