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MICHAEL BARONE: Faced with chance of winning, GOP asks, ?Now what?? ?There is an assumption in the?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL BARONE: Faced with chance of winning, GOP asks, ‘Now what?’ “There is an assumption in the political world that spending cuts will be unpopular: Americans, it is said, are ideologically conservative but operationally liberal. But there is some evidence that voters will back governors who cut spending, such as Mitch Daniels, re-elected while Barack Obama was carrying Indiana in 2008, and Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie, elected in Virginia and New Jersey in 2009 and now enjoying good job ratings. One reason is that as candidates they let voters know what they would do.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).