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Was There a Coherent GOP Strategy in the Stimulus Debate?

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted February 20, 2009 at 1:00am

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noting that polling data
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get some of their favored spending programs
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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears on Friday in CQ Politics.

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