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	GOP Origin

LikaStarr

11-29-2007 3:47 PM

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gop, republican, party, politics

LikaStarr says:

The question of what GOP comes up on occasion so I thought I'd clip this tidbit of information as a point of reference for others. It seems as though GOP has become a brandname amongst the Republican Party and it's real meaning gets lost along the way.

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