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How Not To Switch Parties

Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith makes all the wrong moves.

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Still, there are some fundamental rules that party switchers should follow. Griffith seems to have lost the manual.

Correction, Jan. 26, 2010: This article originally misspelled Lilly Ledbetter's name. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Christopher Beam is a writer living in Beijing.