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19 August, 2004
19 August 2004Who will the Republicans appease? A new press narrative forming around the party -- that the Bush campaign is pushing its solid base of conservative evangelicals to the side to appeal to more moderate swing voters -- is strangely familiar. And it's happening in slow enough motion that we can see G.O.P. leaders squirm away from the new spin, pushing forward talking heads from the Christian Coalition to testify that they don't mind their new, "understated role." But for each of these peace-makers, Anne-Marie O'Connor of The Los Angeles Times, finds a Janice Crouse, a leader of Concerned Women for America, who warned that Bush should worry more about losing the support of his evangelical Christian voters in the crucial swing states. "'The gays and pro-abortion people are saying you've got to add a plank,' Crouse said. 'If the president adds that plank, they will nail him to it.'"
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