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DeMint Rules Everything Around Me

It’s hot outside. You want to go home. Fair enough. As you do, check out my weekend article about the roles of the would-be GOP kingmakers in the primaries. Here’s how they prove that social issues – as long as everybody’s already gotten right on them – aren’t motivators for these voters anymore. Here’s what DeMint learned from his early 2007 endorsement of Mitt Romney. (Don’t endorse early, or people ignore you from there on out.)