Every Republican Left Behind?

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Scandals, voting trends and helpless leadership portend electoral defeat for the GOP in the upcoming election.

A Republican Senate candidate is embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. A Republican congressman is caught up in a tawdry sexual affair. And across the country, from Illinois to Louisiana to last night's special election in a deep-red district in Mississippi, which Democrat Travis Childers won handily, Republicans are losing races they expected to win. The 2008 election may be all about "change" -- but it has an awfully familiar feel to it. For the GOP, is this 2006 all over again?

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Interview 12 May 2008

Jeffrey Goldberg’s Exclusive Interview With Barack Obama

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