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Joe Biden Is in Scranton Today

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Scranton is the home of the Catholic hospital where the vice president was born. Mercy Hospital there is among three Catholic Pennsylvania hospitals that Obamacare helped put up for sale.

Catholicvote.org helps mark the occasion, focused like a laser on November, in a new radio ad. “Pro-life Democrats” Chris Carney and Paul Kanjorski will not approve the message.

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