President Obama and his fellow Democrats face the possibility of losing not just the Massachusetts Senate seat but also the Senate seat Obama held in Illinois.
Voters there head to the polls February second to elect nominees in the Republican and Democratic primaries for that seat.
NPR's David Schaper reports.
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