WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Virginia, died Saturday after battling breast cancer, her office said. She was 57.
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President George Bush said Davis was a "fine example of a public servant" whose "common sense values will be missed on Capitol Hill."
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George Allen (R), Virginia Senate, 2006: It's not that this election was ever a slam-dunk for Allen; Democrats from the outset felt that Jim Webb, a Vietnam veteran and former Navy secretary, was a competitive candidate. But there's no question that Allen was already looking past his re-election bid and toward the 2008 presidential contest, where some wags listed him as the Republican front-runner. That all fell apart when a cell phone camera recorded Allen making disparaging remarks about a Webb supporter during an Allen rally, a supporter who happened to be an Indian-American. Allen's word choice to describe the supporter — "macaca" — opened up the senator to charges of racial insensitivity at best, a history of bigotry at worst. Allen never recovered, and though the final margin was narrow, it gave the Democrats control of the Senate.
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The question that currently needs to be addressed is:
'Who shall replace U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Virginia'
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