Colom challenges Hyde-Smith to debates, calls her ‘chicken’

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Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Scott Colom said Thursday he accepted invitations from two TV stations to debate and challenged Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith to join him.Flanked by a staffer in an inflatable chicken outfit, Colom told reporters he sent Hyde-Smith&