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  • Demonstrators with the Occupy D.C. take to the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, to show support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    With winter looming, labor unions fortify Occupy camp

    Some of the country's biggest and most powerful unions are providing the infrastructure and amenities to keep the Occupy D.C. encampment fortified going into the winter.


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Rep. Chet Edwards (right) listens to Army veteran Dan Poluda at the VFW post in West, Texas, on Wednesday. "I'm used to being a target," Mr. Edwards said. "This year there's clearly an anti-Washington environment, and I share those frustrations."

    Veteran Democrats vulnerable

    Rep. Chet Edwards consistently makes the list of the most vulnerable Democrats; he hails from a district that gave Republican John McCain a whopping 67 percent of the presidential vote in 2008.


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