MINNEAPOLIS -- Even by the most modest estimates, the record for outside spending in midterm elections could be broken this year. With Republicans hoping to expand their majority in the House and seize control of the Senate from the Democrats, and with Democrats hoping to minimize their losses prior to the likely Democratic swing in 2016, spending
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