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Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Quotation
There’s no question that George Bush tarnished the Republican brand nationally on both national security and the economy… Republicans are living with that problem.
— Mark Mellman, the pollster for John Kerry, assessing George W. Bush’s impact on the current election cycle.