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State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, under fire for misspeaking about his military record during Vietnam, easily won the endorsement Friday night of Connecticut Democrats to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd.

"This week, as you all know, I had a little bit of a tough fight myself," Blumenthal said with a smile. "You all have been hearing what my wife, Cynthia, has been telling me for almost 30 years ... that I am not perfect. That I make mistakes. But you also know that I'm a fighter."

Despite the national attention that Blumenthal's misstatements have attracted, Democrats said they could not ignore his 26 years of political service — six years as a state lawmaker and 20 as Connecticut's omnipresent attorney general — to the state.
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