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The future vice-president is key to getting the outsider’s policies through Congress
His leadership will help to define his party’s platform ahead of 2016, says Thomas Duesterberg
Politicians warm to sports, while many athletes enter politics — the results are seldom good
Tackling poverty and stagnation is sound conservatism
The party seems dumb. It seems uncool. And there is a reason for that
The choice is between policies that haven’t worked and policies that won’t, writes Bruce Bartlett
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