GOP Proves You Can’t Win Without Running a Campaign on Issues

By David Winston
Roll Call Contributing Writer

November 10, 2008

For the second national election in a row, Republicans failed to build the kind of winning coalition that drove Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory and the successful 1994 Gingrich revolution. The reason isn’t particularly complicated.

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