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      <excerpt>...of Citizen Jane Politics, a non-partisan website for women... more   WILMINGTON, Del. -Nine-term Delaware Republican congressman Michael Castle will run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden last year after the Democrat was elected vice presiden</excerpt>
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