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  Hynes pounces on Obama at last debate
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DescriptionThe final debate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Wednesday showed the fight is no longer Barack Obama and Dan Hynes taking on Blair Hull. It's Hynes vs. Obama and Hull battling his own past.

Revelations about domestic abuse in his divorce dropped Hull from front-runner to third place. Anew Hull admission that he twice checked himself in to alcohol rehabilitation probably won't help.

Obama, meanwhile, has shot up as high as 20 percentage points ahead of Hynes and Hull, according to the latest polls. So Hynes opened Wednesday's debate by attacking Obama, his former ally:

"When George Ryan was leading our state into a fiscal ditch, I took him on," Hynes said. "I often stood alone. That's what leaders do. Barack Obama chose a different course. He stayed silent. He didn't do anything."

Obama said it was Hynes who sat "on the sidelines" as Obama fought Ryan in Springfield.
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