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GOP Has Winning Issues, Losing Strategies

Written by: Peter Morici, Senior Contributor 04/18/12 - 7:28 AM EDT
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Social conservatives are at it again -- sacrificing the opportunity to advance their agenda on the altar of ideological purity. If President Obama wins reelection, they will blame the GOP nominee -- Mitt Romney -- for a lack of commitment to core conservative values and running an ineffective campaign, but a glance in the mirror would better identify the source of their woes.

Obama is vulnerable, because the economic recovery is the weakest since the Great Depression -- unemployment remains above 8%. If jobless adults who have quit looking for work altogether were counted, the unemployment rate would be closer to 11%.

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