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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Lane3 who wrote (17793)7/8/2001 9:11:11 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
How are Republicans being cavalier toward secular types? I don't see the leadership treating you as second class citizens at all.

I think the fears of the left, and of secular types, are overblown. Bush's ideas are fairly innocuous. Rosa Parks and many black ministers have endorsed his faith based initiatives.

I don't know what it is in the census data that has Castellanos and Bond so bothered. The population shift will help Republicans when it comes to redistricting. Other than that I don't see what it is in the census data that is very useful to them. I know a guy who wrote he was a Druid on the census form.

This is how I would have written the opening to that story:

Inside the beltway journalists and a few talking heads, sweating over recent decisive conservative election wins in Virginia and New Jersey, (and looking to fill a news vacuum) are trying to put forward the notion that the country is moving leftward. Two solitary Republican strategists, embarrassed to be associated with people they think are right wing nuts from the fever swamp, have cheerily chimed in their agreement. They both failed to notice that the latest Zogby poll showed Bush has a 60-30 favorable/unfavorable rating.
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