AP sources: Burris won’t run for full Senate term (AP)

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. delivers his opening remarks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, during the committee's hearing on Type 1 Diabetes Research. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats’ chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.

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