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Getting to Yes: Republicans Don’t Need Ideas to Win, But They Need Them to Govern

By Troy Senik
Thursday, July 22 2010

As the autumnal election season becomes visible on the horizon, Republicans with an eye to retaking congressional majorities are engaged in a roiling debate: Is the GOP better off running on a platform of opposition to liberal misrule or developing an alternative agenda of conservative solutions? The latter camp is represented by those misty for the days of Newt Gingrich, when the 1994 Republican Revolution swept to power on the basis of the Contract with America. With 18 specific promises about the reform agenda that the GOP would advance if it retook the majority, the Contract represented…

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