For 77-year-old Donna Shalala, Nov 6 is not a midterm election - it is also "judgment day", she says.
Ms Shalala, a former president of the University of Miami and Democratic Party politician who served as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 2001 under then President Bill Clinton, is back and running for Congress on Nov 6.
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