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President Obama had dealt the right wing of the Republican Party a stinging defeat in 2012. The victory that the Republican Party establishment had seemed to have worked so hard for during the four years of the Obama presidency was gone. What had happened? The public relations of the right had certainly put out the message concerning President Obama: this president was a deeply flawed individual whose economic policies were expanding the welfare rolls, whose identity as a legitimate citizen was suspect, and who was a sympathizer to all that were not American Christians. If this is not a correct assessment of their game plan then the Republican Party needs to decide who will be their spokesperson. Who will be the one voice that the “Establishment” Republicans, moderate Republicans, and the Tea Party enthusiast can rally around?
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Volle, J.J. (2016). 2014—The New Triumvirate. In: Twenty-Five Years of GOP Presidential Nominations. The Evolving American Presidency. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528599_8
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