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The GOP's future: Duncan in trouble?

 
Is RNC Chair Mike Duncan's re-election bid in big trouble? Many a leading Republican has criticized the RNC's push against Obama regarding the Blagojevich scandal. “‘I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a President-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles,’ former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan.” ...( read more ) (link)

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