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The GOP's governors wearily assess the 2008 fallout
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At a panel discussion Wednesday of what went wrong in the 2008 campaign and the implications for the party's image, the tone was often surprisingly negative, especially for a public forum. Pollster and panel moderator Frank Luntz explained the rationale: "Normally when I do these presentations it is done in private, but the [Republican governors] wanted the American people to know that they understand what happened in this election and this is the beginning, not the end." Luntz didn't mince words, telling the crowd that he felt like assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian "at an AARP convention" and reminding the party faithful that taken together, the 2006 midterms and the 2008 elections marked the GOP's worst back-to-back performance since 1930 and '32. "We have to be honest with ourselves," Luntz said, "and quite honestly things are really tough right now."
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