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challenger.
Mr. Smith, for his part, had made some digs in his Winchester speech on Monday. “I do not believe obscurity is a virtue,” the Democratic challenger told his audience, referring to a recent article in Roll Call magazine that named Congressman Slaughter as one of the 10 most “obscure” Members of Congress.
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