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Sarah Palin: Don’t Move Center for the GOP

Now that the "Palin Primaries" are behind us, Republicans may try to attract more voters by moving to the center. But Tunku Varadarajan says the GOP should continue to channel the activist group’s energy.

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Sarah Palin (Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo)
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Conventional wisdom holds that the Republicans, having conducted their primaries to the Tea Party’s rumbustious tune (composer, Sarah Palin) will now tack to the center in order to present a more broadly electable face to America’s midterm voters—and in particular, to those weird and mercurial creatures known as “independents.”

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