The race to replace 35th District Delegate and Democratic Attorney General candidate Steve Shannon is within a 2-point margin – or at least it was two weeks ago, according to polls conducted for Republican candidate Jim Hyland.

Hyland’s margin, described by his campaign manager Kevin Conroy as “within the margin of error,” reflects a tightening of the race since a July benchmark poll, when pollsters Barry Zeplowitz and Bill Lee of TelOpinion Research indicated in a confidential memo posted on Hyland’s website that Hyland held a 7-point lead 43 percent to 36 percent lead, with 21 percent undecided. The memo did not indicate the size of the sample or whether “likely voter” filters were used.

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From the floor of the Republican National Committee Convention

Tammy Stern from Texas

Jim Herring, President of the delegation from Mississippi

Jeannie Leike from Mississippi

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At the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee hearing May 31, 2008, an Obama delegate (Eugene Kinlow) and a Hillary supporter (James Quinn) told TRNS what they wished to see as a result of the hearing. (2:39)