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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa popped up on CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" Tuesday afternoon and said there’s no way the California U.S. Senate race will end in a Republican upset, a la Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

The June 8 primary features a GOP trio: multimillionaire businesswoman Carly Fiorina, Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and former Rep. Tom Campbell. But Villaraigosa said fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer is a tough campaigner and too tuned in with California voters to lose her Senate reelection bid in November, even at a time when voters have soured on incumbents.
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Mayor Villar still thinks he is popular too.

Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday.

Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is “like being able to Google political history using the ‘I Feel Lucky’ button every time,” said Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host.

Ed Morrissey, a senior correspondent for the conservative blog Hot Air (hotair.com), said, “The geek in me wants to find an excuse to start digging.”
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A present for political junkies