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Questioning the GOP's Plea to Keyes

NPR
Published August 5, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Republicans have asked former presidential and Senate candidate Alan Keyes to run against Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois. Keyes has never lived in Illinois. Commentator John Ridley thinks the choice spells desperation for the state's Republican party.

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