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American Prospect, The, May, 2002
OH, THOSE PESKY REPUBLIcan voters, bringing Democrats to grief in the privacy of the voting booth! Except lately, it's their own party that they're confounding. What could they be thinking?
Here's Bush strategist Karl Rove, watching blue states grow bluer and concluding that only moderate Republicans are electable therein. In left-leaning California, he drafts Richard Riordan, poised uneasily at the left extreme of Republican ranks, to run for governor. In the Midwest, he can relax: Increasingly Democratic Illinois has a decades-old tradition of electing moderate Republicans as ...
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