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Argentina’s ailing Kirchner takes hit in midterm vote

Midterm elections Sunday dealt a tough new loss to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner’s political movement in the country’s biggest voting district, officials said. Exit polls cited by local television said her wing of the Peronist party would not poll as well as in the last elections.