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- If the nation’s voters decide to send Sen. Barack Obama to the White House, there will be another election of sorts in his home state of Illinois.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a two-term Democrat at odds with members of his own party, would alone choose who succeeds the state’s junior senator.
Some politicians are talking openly about the possibility of being appointed to the Senate and bloggers have begun playing the “who’s next” game about the person to fill out the remaining two years of Obama’s term.
“I’m sure a lot of people are trying to tell the governor what to do – absolutely,” said Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who did not rule out accepting an appointment.
