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Article: Fire power. (National Rifle Association)
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- December 1, 1994
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Surprising Poll Results and Election Returns Show that the National Rifle Association Had a lot More to Do with November 8 than Most Pundits Realize
After every election day, the air is filled with punditry as to what happened and why. November 8 unleashed such a tumultuous sea change in American politics, the experts will be picking through the rubble for a long time to come. After a while, certain themes will be repeated until they become "conventional wisdom."
Before that conventional wisdom hardens, let's look at some of the driving forces in the recent campaign that have virtually gone unreported either by the press or the partisans involved. These forces ...