A picture of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is surrounded by candles during a vigil outside the Tucson University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona January 8, 2011. Even before the shooting of a congresswoman on Saturday, the state of Arizona was in the throes of a convulsive political year that had come to symbolize a bitter partisan divide across much of America. The motives of the alleged shooter, who wounded Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people i
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