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    In Illinois, Democrats face a test of big-tent values

    Mar 19, 2018 4 minutes

    In recent days, dozens of anti-abortion activists, mostly college students giving up their spring break, have descended on the Chicago suburbs to canvass for votes – for a Democrat.

    Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois is something of an endangered species: one of the last Democrats in the House of Representatives who consistently votes against abortion rights. And he is facing extinction, in the form of a serious primary challenge from a pro-abortion-rights political neophyte, Marie Newman, in the Illinois primary on Tuesday.

    It’s not the only battle between Democrats this primary season. In suburban House districts from Boston to Houston, to the US Senate race in California, progressives

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