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Article: GOP will court its libertarian wing.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2001
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Influential Republicans are preparing an election game plan to put reliable majorities in Congress.
The trick, they say, is to go back to the limited-government basics of the party's libertarian wing without generating friction with social and religious conservatives.
"Our party's broad center-right coalition includes social conservatives as well as libertarians, so it's doable," Republican strategist Grover Norquist said.
He said that if Republicans had sought to win over even a tiny percentage of the Libertarian Party vote in Nevada and Washington state, it would have a 52-48 Senate majority instead of a 50-50 split.
Mr. ...