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BY DAVE McKINNEY Springfield Bureau Chief September 21, 2014 9:00PM

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, in Chicago. Quinn is running against Republican Bruce Rauner in the November general election. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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Updated: September 22, 2014 2:11AM

SPRINGFIELD After trailing Republican Bruce Rauner by double digits, Gov. Pat Quinn has brought the governors race to a statistical dead heat, new polling data released Sunday showed.

Among likely voters, the Winnetka Republican led Quinn by a 44 to 41 percent spread with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, according to automated polling done Thursday by We Ask America.

Libertarian Chad Grimm, whose campaign was permitted last week by a Sangamon County judge to remain on the Nov. 4 ballot, stood at 6 percent in the new poll.

We Ask Americas most recent polling on the race published Sept. 3 by Reboot Illinois had Rauner up on the incumbent Chicago Democrat by a 46 to 38 percent margin. An Aug. 6 poll done by the group for the Chicago Sun-Times had Rauner with a 13-point lead.

There is a lot of time left, but Mr. Rauner continues to lose ground, We Ask Americas chief operating officer Gregg Durham told Early & Often, the Chicago Sun-Times online political portal.

Whatever messaging Gov. Quinn has done is causing movement. But some of this movement is simply Democrats coming back home who early on werent so sure about staying with Gov. Quinn, Durham said.

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Herbert Slatery speaks about his appointment as attorney general in the Tennessee Supreme Court chamber in Nashville on Sept. 15.

NASHVILLE Newly appointed state Attorney General Herbert Slatery, who last week became only the second Republican in Tennessee history to hold the post, fully embraces the unusual process in which the state Supreme Court names the state's top lawyer.

But what Slatery, and most other people, may not know is that Tennessee's one and only previous Republican attorney general, Thomas M. Coldwell, who served from 1865 to 1870, also happened to be the last one popularly elected to the job.

"It's an interesting story," said former Tennessee Attorney General W.J. Michael Cody, who said he researched the history of Tennessee's unique approach with former Deputy Attorney General Andy Bennett, now a Court of Appeals judge. Most other states, including Georgia and Alabama, elect their attorneys general.

Indeed it is an interesting story, of suspected intrigues in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. It ranks with the tale of Republican Slatery's own appointment over sitting Democratic Attorney General Bob Cooper by a Supreme Court dominated by Democrats.

In the present day the court's three Democrats -- Justices Sharon Lee, Connie Clark and Gary Wade -- survived efforts by Republican state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and national conservatives to unseat them in August elections.

Then the Democratic justices and their two Republican colleagues declined to reappoint Cooper and named Slatery, who was Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's legal counsel, instead.

The 19th-century story involves a former U.S. senator-turned Confederate from Tennessee, A.O.P. Nicholson, and his fellow Tennessean and Confederate Congress member Joseph Heiskell.

Both attorneys, the pair evidently became fast friends during the Civil War while cooling their heels in a Yankee prison.

With apparently a lot of time to daydream, Cody said, Heiskell decided he'd like to be attorney general. Well, Nicholson came back, he'd like to be a Supreme Court judge.

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