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Cracked.(Critical essay)
MARA LIASSON, the often besieged liberal on Fox News, marveled at the differences between the Republican and Democratic presidential debates during a recent edition of Fox News Sunday. "I thought that in the Democratic debate there was much more unity," she said. "Everybody's kind of scrambling to talk about how they're going to end the war, but there were no big divisions on social issues. In the Republican debate, there are divisions.... I mean, there are real divisions there on the social issues."
This was an interesting observation that Liasson didn't get to follow up on. After all, there's a big "And therefore what?" to be answered.
It's easy to ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Cracked.(Critical essay)