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A Latino Republican leader informs the candidates that the United States will soon be a majority-minority country. What are they going to do about it?
Go to the “precinct level,” says Blackwell, and inform blacks and Latinos that the GOP will fight the unions who would keep their children in “public school reservations.”
“Tone and tenor is [...]

The lightning round begins: Who is everyone’s favorite Republican president? Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. And finally, from Ken Blackwell: “Ronald Reagan, who brought me into the Republican party.”
“Good,” says Norquist. “Everyone got that one right.”
Who’s everyone’s least favorite Republican president? Steele and Saltsman pass. Dawson suggests Warren G. Harding. Blackwell nominates Herbert Hoover, “who [...]

The candidates are mostly friendly as they take their two minute introductions. Mostly. After Katon Dawson bragged that he’d turned the South Carolina GOP around, Ken Blackwell emphasized that he had won 15 elections. In Ohio. “We all know how difficult it is to win elections in that swing state of South Carolina.”
The laughter lasted [...]