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The Atlantic Daily: Is Anyone Not Running for President?

Rick Perry enters the race, a Duggar family interview raises questions, and more ...
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What's Happening: Is Anyone Not Running for President?

Rick Perry, George W. Bush’s successor as Texas governor, for the Republican presidential nomination. George W.'s brother Jeb looks likely to follow suit in the next few weeks. The 2016 presidential race is starting to sound like a Russian novel, which for American politics, seems like a pretty unpopular

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