Conservatives are Losing Ground


	Conservatives are Losing Ground

laceym

3-30-2007 4:48 PM

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atheism, religion, politics

laceym says:

That last graph should scare the old timers.

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3-31-2007 1:53 PM

AtlLiberal

Ahem! I find it encouraging. I guess I'm just a physical oldtimer...

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