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Can Dems unseat a thrice-elected GOP congressman in this battleground L.A. County district?
Early on a Saturday morning at Rawley Duntley Park in Lancaster — the high-desert sun blazing — George Whitesides, a Democrat running for Congress, was encircled by dozens of cheering, noisemaker-blasting volunteers. “I really want to make sure that even …