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minx.cc - 11/5/2009
The Maximalists Win One: NRSC PROMISES TO STAY OUT OF CONTESTED PRIMARIES
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And I mean this: Good for you guys. I had been writing in my head a follow-up to yesterday's post, in which I would re-examine the situation, and see it instead as the maximalists saying We are going to saber-rattle...
politico.com - 11/4/2009
Cornyn: NRSC won't play in primaries
— politico.com — My POLITICO colleague Manu Raju reports: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex.) says he won't... channel cash into any primary pitting Republican vs. Republican -- including the heated Florida Senate primary between ... (more) Cornyn: NRSC won't play in primaries

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politics.theatlantic.com - 30 days ago
Thought The NRSC Wasn't Going To Help Its Candidates Who Face Primaries?
— politics.theatlantic.com — One day after National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn promised that his group wouldn't play in... Republican primaries, a Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas is preparing for a fundraiser at the National Republican Senatorial ... (more) Thought The NRSC Wasn't Going To Help Its Candidates Who ...

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Hot Air » Top Picks:  Steele on Hoffman’s defeat: It was a botched process

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Steele on Hoffman’s defeat: It was a botched process
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Democratic nominee, if not more so. And if that happens — and Crist wins the primary anyway — I’m not sure how the fences end up being mended in time for a unified party-line vote for Crist in the general election. It’s hard to go from “this guy’s a scumbag RINO who’s no better than the Democrats who are destroying the country” to “this guy represents most of my interests” in a few months. I don’t know what the solution is to that, but I think Ace is smart in trying to build bridges between “pragmatists” and “maximalists” long in advance. The nastier things get, the more ...

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