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"The math is not in our favor this cycle"

Matt Welch | 12.27.2005 10:23 AM

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So sayeth Mitt Romney, chair of the Republican Governors Association, in this Wall Street Journal article about the likelihood of Democrats taking back a majority of statehouses in 2006. Retirements, broken tax pledges, and GOP fatigue are listed as probable causes.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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