WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 10: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) addresses a news conference at the U.S. Captiol December 10, 2008 in Washington, DC. Jackson had been mentioned as a potential replacement for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (C), who has the power to fill the vacant Senate seat, was arrested at his Chicago home yesterday and charged with corruption after prosecutors said he was trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder. Getty Images logo Getty Images 11 months ago

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 10: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) addresses a news conference at the U.S. Captiol December 10, 2008 in Washington, DC. Jackson had been mentioned as a potential replacement for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (C), who has the power to fill the vacant Senate seat, was arrested at his Chicago home yesterday and charged with corruption after prosecutors said he was trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder.

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  1. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., left, talks with some 85 ministers from the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, asking them and their congregations to urge banks and other institutions to help people avoid foreclosures, in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Jackson called his campaign Stimulus Part II, noting that home prices are expected to drop further in 2010, unemployment will continue to rise, as will the rate of foreclosures.
  2. CHICAGO - OCTOBER 27: Andy Stern (L) President of the Service Employees International Union and Jesse Jackson (R), President and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, lead a march of thousands of protestors demonstrating for bank reform to the Sheraton Hotel where the American Bankers Association's (ABA) annual convention was being held October 27, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. The protestors, most of whom were union members and community activists, were calling for a halt to home foreclosures, limits on bonuses for bank executives and demanding a halt to lobbying against bank reform. The ABA conference runs from October 25-28.
  3. The Rev. Jesse Jackson (R) departs on August 29, 2009 after a funeral mass for US Senator Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston. President Barack Obama, three former presidents and a nation's elite gathered in the rain to attend a grand Catholic funeral for Ted Kennedy, America's legendary political patriarch.

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  1. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., left, talks with some 85 ministers from the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, asking them and their congregations to urge banks and other institutions to help people avoid foreclosures, in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Jackson called his campaign Stimulus Part II, noting that home prices are expected to drop further in 2010, unemployment will continue to rise, as will the rate of foreclosures.
  2. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. talks with some 85 ministers from the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, asking them and their congregations to urge banks and other institutions to help people avoid foreclosures, in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Jackson called his campaign Stimulus Part II, noting that home prices are expected to drop further in 2010, unemployment will continue to rise, as will the rate of foreclosures.
  3. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. talks with some 85 ministers from the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, asking them and their congregations to urge banks and other institutions to help people avoid foreclosures, in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Jackson called his campaign Stimulus Part II, noting that home prices are expected to drop further in 2010, unemployment will continue to rise, as will the rate of foreclosures.
  4. CHICAGO - OCTOBER 27: Andy Stern (L) President of the Service Employees International Union and Jesse Jackson (R), President and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, lead a march of thousands of protestors demonstrating for bank reform to the Sheraton Hotel where the American Bankers Association's (ABA) annual convention was being held October 27, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. The protestors, most of whom were union members and community activists, were calling for a halt to home foreclosures, limits on bonuses for bank executives and demanding a halt to lobbying against bank reform. The ABA conference runs from October 25-28.
  5. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, left, and Rev. Jesse Jackson talk after Duncan spoke at the Grantmakers for Education's National Conference in the Westin Hotel in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. The recent beating death of a Chicago high school student has brought Duncan along with Attorney General Eric Holder to Chicago to discuss youth violence with Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  6. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, left, and Rev. Jesse Jackson talk after Duncan spoke at the Grantmakers for Education's National Conference in the Westin Hotel in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. The recent beating death of a Chicago high school student has brought Duncan along with Attorney General Eric Holder to Chicago to discuss youth violence with Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  7. US President Barack Obama speaks during an event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2009. Dedicated to improving civic education and educating about the role and importance of the US Senate and named after the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, the Institute will be located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts.
  8. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) puts his arm around Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as they speak about their meeting between Congressional leadership and President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2009.
  9. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking member U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
  10. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) speaks during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
  11. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (2nd R) talks to Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) (L) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) during a break in a hearing on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
  12. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (C) speaks as (L-R) Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV), Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) listen during a hearing on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
  13. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  14. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  15. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  16. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.

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