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New Jersey’s Senate race combines what will likely be one of the closest elections in the country with one of the widest differences between the candidates and where they stand on issues affecting the lives of working families.

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Missouri’s voters could not have a clearer choice in their state’s potentially pivotal U.S. Senate race between Sen. Jean Carnahan (D), who voted for working families 93 percent of the time in 2001, according to the AFL-CIO, and former U.S. Rep.

As a former collegiate wrestler, perhaps it is appropriate that Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) has earned the title of “Undisputed Champion” of working families. In his 12 years in the U.S.

Throughout his 18 years in the Senate, Tom Harkin has been one of the leading fighters for working families, compiling a virtually unparalleled record of advocacy on workers’ rights, trade, jobs, education, health care and retirement security.

In his first term, Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) has proven himself to be a strong supporter of working families and an advocate on such key issues as health care, stopping corporate abuses, pension protection and Social Security.