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HOUSE deputy speaker Rodante Marcoleta probably acted too soon in withdrawing from the Senate race after seeing his numbers in dubious survey ratings. Had he stayed on until the last day of the campaign, he stood to benefit from a tantalizing quirk in election mathematics.

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