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Drop The Platform

NPR

Published May 9, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

Commentator Mickey Edwards says instead of all this fussing about what to put in the GOP platform, why not just drop it altogether. Hardly anyone reads it, no one votes based on it.

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