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Is This the Equivalent of Running for Class President on a No-Homework Platform?

Speaking to a group at a cancer center on Monday, Maryland Rep. Ben Cardin – who is locked in a close Democratic primary race for Senate with former NAACP head Kweisi Mfume – reportedly told his audience, “We are going to lick cancer by 2015.”

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