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Two Top Missouri GOP Pols Renew Support for Akin

Some of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s prominent supporters are reversing course and backing Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s embattled campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Former Missouri Sens. Kit Bond and Jim Talent said Friday they are now behind the candidate they once shunned for his remarks on “legitimate rape.”

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