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The Connect TriStates website apparently took down the article. The link, which worked perfectly well before, no longer works. At least not as of 4:55PM ET, 12/10.

Who will fill Obama's senate seat?
Ill. governor meeting with Obama today

By Carol Sowers
November 05, 2008

CHICAGO, ILL. -- Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That's one of Obama's first priorities today.

He's meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=217582

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Obammie made a phone call to the TV station and....

Now on the web site:

KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.

The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=233822