** FILE ** Sen. Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., right, and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, co-chairmen of the 9/11 Working Group, talk to reporters in this Sept. 15, 2004, file photo in Washington. Expected Democratic gains in the approaching November election raise the possibility of the Senate ending up in a tie for the second time in six years, and a possible plan for power-sharing like the 2001 Lott-Daschle deal. But McConnell, the favorite to succeed retiring Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., as Republican leader, and Reid would be negotiating in a far more partisan atmosphere than in 2001, when the new president and the Democrats were talking of cooperation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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