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Dan Seals is a Democratic politician from Illinois who narrowly lost to Republican Robert Dold in his attempt to succeed now-Sen. Mark Kirk as congressman from the 10th district in 2010. Seals had previously been the Democratic nominee in races against Kirk in 2006 and 2008.
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