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Say good-bye to ‘Uncle Ted’

Published December 1, 2008, 9:24 pm, Washington State University Daily Evergreen

Fewer than two weeks after Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was convicted of seven corruption-related felonies, the people of Alaska went to the polls and nearly re-elected their disgraced senator.

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