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	<title><![CDATA[When Another Senate Seat Was Up for Sale]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-loerzel/when-another-senate-seat_b_155649.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>A hundred years ago, political tensions were running high in Illinois. Everyone wanted to know the answer to one suspenseful question: Who would be the new U.S. Senator from Illinois?</p>

<p>The struggle to answer that question would stretch on for four years, as charges of bribery and corruption rocked Springfield and Washington. It seemed that a U.S. Senate seat was up for sale. The resulting scandal continues to echo a century later, as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich faces charges of putting...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-01-06T15:56:00-05:00</date_published>
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