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The GOP Establishment Turns a ‘Firehose’ on Virginia Tea Partiers

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Turning the insurgents’ own tactics against them, the party used a ‘firehose primary’ of rabid voters to give the congressional nomination to an insider’s insider.

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