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Republicans Hold Onto the Base
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Nov 09, 2006 12:50pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Thursday, November 9, 2006 06:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Republican Party ceded the center of American politics and its many groups of swing voters to the Democratic Party in the 2006 midterm elections - with predictable results.
The GOP lost the House and the Senate.
Republicans lost badly among independent voters, suburbanites, white Catholics, the middle class and Hispanics - groups it had been courting successfully in recent years, exit polls found.
``The one thing that is so frustrating is when you hear the Karl Roves and Ken Mehlmans talking about focusing on the base because there are no swing voters,'' said GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio, who says there are still plenty of swing voters.
A fourth of voters this year were independents, according to exit polls, and they voted heavily for Democratic candidates. |
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