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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) warned Thursday that the loss of Senate moderates like Sen. Olympia Snow (R-Maine), who announced her pending retirement earlier this week, could have devastating implications for the upper chamber's ability to address big problems.

"If we don't begin to take better care of the moderates in both parties in our democracy it's not going to be pretty, because if you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise when it comes to the most difficult problems," McCaskill said on CBS.

The Missouri senator said that those in the center were struggling to compete with ideologues on the far extremes of the political parties.

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