Plaintalk from the Texas Hill Country, it's My Party too!

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The lead commentary for today is: Republicans Ask: Just How Bad Can It Get... "We cannot be a majority governing party when we essentially cannot compete in the northeast; we are losing our ability to compete in the Great Lakes states, we cannot compete on the West Coast," Pawlenty argued, also citing similar problems in the mid-Atlantic and the Mountain West.

"Similarly, we cannot compete and prevail as a majority governing party when we have a significant deficit as we do with woman, where we have a large deficit with Hispanics, where we have a large deficit with African-American voters, where we have a large deficit with people of modest incomes."