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Minneapolis mayor Rybak goes to Iowa to take on GOP

Rybak is in Iowa ahead of the caucuses and dishing out some strong words for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. He said the primary is Romney's to lose and anything less than a first-place win would show he couldn't win national support.
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Rybak is in Iowa ahead of the caucuses and dishing out some strong words for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. He said the primary is Romney's to lose and anything less than a first-place win would show he couldn't win national support.

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