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By Paul Waldman | Friday, November 10, 2006 | The Boston Globe

Paul Waldman is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America and the author of “Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.” Here he makes some valuable points about the true meaning of the recent election results, where Republicans were essentially wiped out everywhere but the South, leaving the surviviors more conservative, more strictly and sterotypically Southern (self-righteously Christian, pro-gun, anti-immigrant…). Ultimately, the Republican Party now embraces a much smaller tent, and the Democratic victory was not because the Dems ran more conservative candidates, but because they offered moderates…BS

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