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George H.W. Bush's Defection Is a Big Deal
When mainstream Republicans can't even utter their nominee's name, that says something.
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George H.W. Bush is planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. That’s not considered major news by most mainstream outlets. But it should be.
The story, first picked up by Politico late Monday night from a Facebook post by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, got almost no play for example from the New York Times. It created only a very small flurry of interest on Twitter, at least judging from my feed.