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Republican retreat

By Andrew Ward

Published: May 1 2009 19:49 | Last updated: May 1 2009 19:49

Arlen Specter
Senator Arlen Specter’s move to the Democrats this week fuelled Republican infighting about the party’s future

Five days after President George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, his political guru, Karl Rove, was asked whether he had finally achieved his famous ambition of building a permanent Republican majority.

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