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Blagojevich names Burris to Obama’s Senate seat

David Edwards
30 Dec 2008 at 16:01 ET

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In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced that he had chosen former Ill. Attorney General to take Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

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David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.

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James Carville poses the single geography question that exposes White House defensiveness on Niger

‘He’s incredibly inarticulate’: Harvard students give Sean Spicer a failing grade as a guest lecturer

James Carville rants it’s hard for Democrats to win elections when voters don’t care that Republicans lie

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Race, lies, and videotape: John Kelly’s attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson is an attack on democracy itself

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