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Tuesday afternoon that although the Congressman’s absence from the campaign trail “hasn’t helped” his re-election bid, the voters understand his decision. “They are supportive of his decision . . . His job is to be in Washington to represent them.”

In the final days of the campaign, Mr. Goolrick said, Congressman Slaughter plans to “get to each locality in the district at least one time.”

Mr. Goolrick said that voters in the Seventh District share the general dissatisfaction with the way Congress has handled the budget crisis, “but people don’t associate Congressman Slaughter with that.” The spokesman pointed out that,

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