G.O.P. Theme in Fall Election: It's a Dark and Unsafe World - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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With four weeks to go before the midterm elections, Republicans have made questions of how safe we are – from disease, terrorism or something unspoken and perhaps more ominous – central in their attacks against Democrats. Their message is decidedly grim: Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party run a government that is so fundamentally broken it cannot offer its people the most basic protection from harm.
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Republicans believe they have found the sentiment that will tie Congressional races together with a single national theme.
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When Republicans picked up seats in the House and Senate in 2010, they did so by running on burning emotional issues like unemployment and anger over the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
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