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Two candidates are are fighting to win the Democratic nomination in Missouri's fifth district.

KCUR
Published July 27, 2004 at 8:13 AM CDT

Kansas City – The policies they support are very similar, but otherwise Jamie Metzl and Emmanuel Cleaver, the two candidates for the Democratic nomination in Missouri's fifth district, could hardly be more different.
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