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...runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections will not materialize simply because they preordain it in the media or because they ask their special interest friends to buy it for them. The results in San Diego show that nothing has happened to alter the notion that House elections are about a choice between local personalities focused on local issues." His spokesman Carl Forti added...
...Blumenthal is careful to add, it doesn't preordain another heart attack. "He should look at this episode as a wake-up call," Blumenthal says. Losing weight, eating right, keeping his blood pressure low and exercising more are all steps that should help. Most doctors also advise heart patients to minimize stress, but stress is one thing Cheney will have a hard time avoiding--at least for the time being...
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