July 20, 2009

My GOP: Too Old and Too White

Bill Greener, Salon

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A Republican looks at the numbers and sees disaster ahead, unless his party figures out how to be less -- caucasian

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Four-month-old Nuhkon Shendo-Smith sleeps in his mother's arms with a Barack Obama sticker on his blanket during an event attended by the presidential candidate in February 2008.

July 20, 2009 | Republicans can engage in complicated studies to determine the standing of our brand. We (after all, I most certainly am a Republican) can search for policy...

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