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News Analysis: Democratic Lieutenant Governor Race

WTTW News | February 8, 2010, 7:00 pm

Yesterday during the Super Bowl, Scott Lee Cohen quit the race for lieutenant governor in response to intense controversy. We hear from two of the candidates who lost in the primary to Cohen.

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