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............[Mary Matalin]urged that Akin drop out, to be replaced by Ann Wagner, a former co-chair of the RepublicanNationalCommittee, who is the GOP nominee for Akin’s vacant House seat. Akin “may be dug in, but he’s not going to have a shovel to continuing digging, because he’s not going to have any money,” Matalin told ABC. “We’re going to win Missouri. Ann Wagner is going to end up being our candidate. The party is going to get Ann Wagner in.” Wagner aides hotly dispute that their candidate is involved in any negotiations about switching races. But sources close to Akin acknowledge...

Group Seeks Ouster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010A newNevada-based organization, Independent Nevadans for Change, officially launched today its political effort to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) in 2010 with the release of its new website: DumpReid.com. "Democrats, Republicans and independent voters don't often agree on much," said longtime political activist Chuck Muth, director of the Dump Reid project, "but a growing number from all philosophical walks of life agree that it's time to changeNevada's senior U.S. senator." Independent Nevadans for Change is an IRS 527 organization which will use the Internet to recruit opposition and...