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GOP Future: Today's RNC forum

 

Published 1/5/2009 by Mark Murray at First Read

USA Today previews the RNC chair race, as well as today’s candidate forum in DC. CQ reports that RNC chairman Mike Duncan "has told Republican insiders that neither he nor any other of the five candidates in the race will have the 85 votes needed to win outright when RNC members cast ballots during the winter meetings that run Jan. 28-31... Duncan is ‘in the lead’ but short of the necessary votes, according to a committeeman who is concerned about the optics of keeping Duncan at the helm after...( read more ) (link)

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