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GOP Finesses Line of Attack

Party Shifts Focus to Obama

Barely six months ago, Senate Republican leaders held a well-choreographed press conference decrying the Democratic majority’s 2007 legislative record and inability to deliver on change. The GOP Senators also used that forum to tease what was becoming an underlying theme of their 2008 message — the candidacy of presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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