Obama to raise Kaine?

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President Barack Obama and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine are supposed to talk by telephone in the next day or two regarding Kaine’s potential run for Senate in 2012, the White House confirmed Wednesday.

Virginia Democrats are scrambling to find a candidate after Sen. Jim Webb’s not-entirely-unexpected announcement that he would not seek a second term. Former Sen. George Allen, who Webb defeated in 2006, already announced that he’s running to win back that seat.

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