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Question of the Day: Can the NRA Do Anything to Appeal to Democrats?
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"'A new Pew poll finds that support for the NRA has rapidly consolidated along party lines in recent years,' thetrace.org’s latest email blast claims, 'tilting each side of the gun safety debate to a more extreme point of view. Just 13 percent of Republicans now think the NRA has too much influence, down significantly from 2000, when one in three Republicans thought the NRA held too much sway. By contrast, 68 percent of Democrats believe the NRA has too much influence, up from 57 percent 15 years ago.' I certainly don’t recall seeing any Democratic speakers at the last NRA convention. On one hand . . ." ... |
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laker1
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| With the population shifting against more gun control the question is, can democrats appeal more to the NRA and on the side of freedom. |
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