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What Democrats Must Do Now
Nov 4 2009, Rudolf

The 2009 election has come and gone. Once again, the media and their political analysts have failed in their assessment of what would happen.

They are going to also fail in their interpretations of what happened.

In spite of what you see on TV.

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