We’ll get answers soon
Friday, May 7, 2010
Over the next two weeks, a Republican state convention in Utah and a GOP primary in Kentucky will produce the first important verdicts on the highly publicized conservative challenge against the party’s establishment. What these and other contests between now and the fall won’t tell us is the extent to which these internal battles affect the GOP’s midterm election chances and, beyond that, its 2012 challenge to President Barack Obama and the Democrats. In a sense, Tea Party activists and other conservatives already have drawn first blood-in Florida. Mounting support for Marco Rubio, the former House speaker and rising GOP star, forced moderate Governor Charlie Crist to abandon his Senate run as a Republican and try as ...
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Editorial, Pages 18 on 05/07/2010
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