GOP strategy: ditch issues, stir up anger at "them"

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	GOP strategy: ditch issues, stir up anger at "them"

masbury

9-12-2008 4:49 PM

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republican, politics, mccain, palin

masbury says:

It's how you get "working class voters to vote against their own interests." It was also the strategy of Nixon/Agnew and patrician (but feigned folkster) GW Bush. And now, Sarah Palin takes the job.

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