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8 Days Until Filing Deadline & National Party Mounts No Effort To Field A Viable Democratic Candidate, Further Suggesting Backroom Deal With King One day after top Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would not deny that he’s had recent private conversations with former Maine Governor Angus King, a prominent liberal blogger for the Washington Post reports this morning  that Congresswoman Chellie Pingree — “a favorite of national liberals and progressives — has decided not to run for the seat of retiring Olympia Snowe.” Responding to this unsurprising news, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Rob Jesmer reiterated the view today that the fix has been in for national Democrats to privately anoint Independent candidate Angus King as their standard-bearer.  “The decision by national Democrats to throw Chellie Pingree and other proud Democratic leaders in Maine aside, in favor of an ‘independent’ who supported President Bush in 2000, makes clear they…