To counter the stark reality, in 2010, Hamet Watt and Paul Campbell co-founded Los Angeles-based startup bLife focused on helping Americans to live their best lives.

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The group - foreign affairs and defence spokesman Menzies Campbell, chief whip Paul Tyler, campaigns chief Nick Harvey and social security select committee chairman Archy Kirkwood - are expected to back the same candidate.

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And GOP incumbents in Georgia (Paul Coverdell) and Colorado (party-switcher Ben Nighthorse Campbell) are worth watching, though their opponents are less than intimidating.

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Kenny Perry, Boo Weekley, JB Holmes, Ben Curtis and Chad Campbell were the other American victors, while debutant Hunter Mahan halved with Paul Casey.

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