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Quinn faces key leadership test in coming weeks

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After keeping a low public profile leading up to the 2012 November election, Gov. Pat Quinn now faces one of the most critical times of his tenure where his every move will be scrutinized by Republicans who've said the 2014 governorís race is their top priority after devastating losses to the party last week.

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Through his own insistence, the next few weeks will offer a critical test of leadership for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. He has set an early January deadline for solving the state's pension crisis — a decades-old problem he says he was "put on this earth" to solve. He's facing lawmakers intent on expanded gambling in the state despite his veto. And all of it is magnified by the emerging 2014 campaign for governor, with Republicans already lining up to take him on and a few of his party colleagues considering it too.

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