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The Fate of Political Insurgents

By Madison Powers and CQ Staff
Posted January 24, 2008 at 1:00am

Kefauver’s popular insurgency campaigns
his stunning victory
known as the McGovern Rules,
Madison Powers is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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