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Clinton got 56 percent of the vote, the uncommitted vote for candidates who had withdrawn but whose names were still on the ballot was 39 percent, and kucinich received but 4 percent. Democracy, he tells the story of how he got his 15 minutes of fame back in 2006. Abby tin speaks to william blum, historian and author of americas deadliest export. Since world war ii, the world has believed that us foreign policy means well, and that.
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