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Harrop: They voted for Democrats to save democracy
By Froma Harrop
Published: November 20, 2022, 6:01am
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Why did Democrats beat expectations that they’d get swamped on Election Day? Was it Republican attacks on abortion rights? Was it a misreading of how much the public blamed Democrats for inflation? And what about the role played by fear of crime and the perceived chaos at the border?
It could have been any or all of those things, but only partly.
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