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Pick The Biggest Political Story Of 2017

What's the biggest political story of the year? It's too hard to decide. You can pick in our March Madness-style bracket contest. Get your bracket before noon Tuesday.
Print out or copy and fill out the bracket above to pick the top political story of the year. Submit it by noon Tuesday to enter to win.

There was so much that happened in 2017, it's hard to believe.

When it came to trying to rank the top stories of the year, it became a near impossibility, especially with so many consequential, eye-popping and fast-moving things that happened.

So we need your help in deciding which was the most important. To make it easy — and hopefully fun — we created or print out the picture above.)

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