More veterans enlisting in the electoral wars

Subject: txt 2010 heroes -
The wars they fought in are still raging, but a surge of veterans from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan are already running hard for public office and shaking up congressional races across the country. It is estimated that the number of candidates with military records on the 2010 ballot will double compared with just two years ago.

But most of the veterans seeking office this year are campaigning as conservatives and looking to emerge from crowded Republican primaries - a prospect that hasn't exactly been embraced in some GOP circles...

[Our two-party political system is killing our country.]

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