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Posted: 3/19/2013 11:08:36 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford addresses supporters in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, after advancing to the GOP primary runoff in a race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, was one of 16 Republicans running in Tuesday's primary. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 11:08:36 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford addresses supporters in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, after advancing to the GOP primary runoff in a race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, was one of 16 Republicans running in Tuesday's primary. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Teddy Turner, the son of media mogul Ted Turner, speaks with reporters outside a polling place in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Turner is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. One of the other Republicans running is former Gov. Mark Sanford. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Campaign signs line the curb outside a polling place in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford speaks with reporters on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford votes on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford speaks with reporters on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/3/2013 10:33:52 AM EST
FILE – In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo Senate Minority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate GOP leadership answer questions about the looming automatic spending cuts after a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell is gearing up for a tough re-election fight in Kentucky next year by trying to head off a GOP primary challenge, trying to scare off potential Democratic contenders, and by giving all a glimpse of his no-holds-barred political tactics. From left, Sen.s John Cornyn, R-Texas, John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 3/3/2013 10:33:47 AM EST
FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo Senate Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. In Kentucky next year McConnell is gearing up for a tough re-election fight, and trying to prevent one. He's trying to head off a GOP primary challenge by cozying up to the tea party, and trying to scare off potential Democratic contenders, like actress Ashley Judd, by giving all a glimpse of his no-holds-barred political tactics. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 11/4/2012 10:33:47 AM EST
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidates, from left, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stand together before a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. It's easy to forget there was a time when Bachmann was the surprise breakout from the GOP primary field. To be replaced by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. And then others. Romney pulled the plug on his first presidential run on Feb. 7, 2008, and immediately served notice that he wasn't about to fade away. "I hate to lose," he told conservatives that day. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Posted: 8/7/2012 11:53:28 PM EST
Steve Holloway of Lincoln County, Mo., celebrates word that U.S. Senate Todd Akin won the GOP primary at his campaign party at the Columns in St. Charles, Mo., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden)
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Posted: 6/12/2012 6:35:45 PM EST
In this June 5, 2012 photo, attorney David Zacks, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., poses for a photo in Birmingham, Mich. Zacks says he and other Republicans he knows are unlikely to support a tea party supporter as their next congressman. The congressional election in Michigan?s 11th District is suddenly up in the air after the shocking failure of U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter to file enough valid signatures to get on the Aug. 7, 2012 GOP primary ballot. (AP Photo/Kathy Barks Hoffman)
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Posted: 6/12/2012 6:35:45 PM EST
In this June 5, 2012 photo, Dave and Donna Zimmer pose for a photo in Birmingham, Mich. The Zimmers say they were surprised by U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter?s failure to file enough valid signatures to get on the Aug. 7, 2012, GOP primary ballot. The Bloomfield Village couple say they?ll vote Republican, but they?re not sure if a write-in candidate has much of a shot against someone already on the ballot. High school teacher Kerry Bentivolio, of Milford, is on the ballot; ex-Sen. Nancy Cassis, of Novi, is the consensus candidate to run a write-in campaign. (AP Photo/Kathy Barks Hoffman)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 10:40:46 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012, file photo, Republican senate candidate Rep. Connie Mack speaks to the Florida Federation of Republican Women during a candidate forum in Tallahassee, Fla. The battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan were looking ideal for Republicans trying to regain a Senate majority in the November elections. With just over five months to Election Day, the three states now look like missed opportunities for the GOP. Florida has an ugly GOP primary between Mack and former Sen. George LeMieux.(AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 10:40:46 AM EST
FILE - In this June 30, 2011, file photo, George LeMieux, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, addresses the members of the Florida Press Association and Florida Society of Newspaper Editors during a candidates forum in St. Petersburg, Fla. The battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan were looking ideal for Republicans trying to regain a Senate majority in the November elections. With just over five months to Election Day, the three states now look like missed opportunities for the GOP. Florida has an ugly GOP primary between Rep. Connie Mack and LeMieux. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 10:40:46 AM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2011, file photo, Sen. Bill Nelson D-Fla., speaks with reporters at the Florida Democratic Party State Convention in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan were looking ideal for Republicans trying to regain a Senate majority in the November elections. Now, eith just over five months to Election Day, the three states now look like missed opportunities for the GOP. Florida has an ugly GOP primary between Rep. Connie Mack and former Sen. George LeMieux. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
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Posted: 5/25/2012 2:50:46 PM EST
FILE - In this May 3, 2012, file photo U.S. Senate candidates, from left, Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Democrat Sean Hubbard, Republican Tom Leppert, Democrat Paul Sadler participate in a live debate at the University of Houston. In heavily Republican Texas, whoever wins the GOP primary on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, is almost sure to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Dallas mayor and businessman, Leppert, is the underdog. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2012 9:30:46 PM EST
FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., from left, Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., and Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., confer in a hallway as Speaker of the House John Boehner tries to retool legislation to raise the nation's debt limit at the Capitol in Washington. Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president. But a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are portraying him as a Washington insider, who should not get to succeed retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., because he worked as a lobbyist 20 years ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2012 9:30:45 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2006, file photo Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz, center, arrives at a Havana, Cuba, hotel, one in a delegation of U.S. lawmakers following leadership shifts there, and possibilities for change in U.S. policies towards the Island. In Flake's re-election race both a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are the six-term congressman as a Washington insider, because he worked as a lobbyist 20 years ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran. Flake says he's long opposed unilateral penalties like sanctions, whether against Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Myanmar or any country, because he saw the damage sanctions can have on innocent people during his time in Nambia. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano, File)
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Posted: 3/7/2012 1:05:46 AM EST
Voters in Cobb County, one of the largest precincts in the state, participate in the Georgia GOP primary on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at Noonday Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga. Republican Presidential candidate Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was favored to win in Georgia on Tuesday, but his rivals have spent time and resources in the state, hoping to grab a share of the state?s 76 delegates.(AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Bob Andres) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT
