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Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 07:48 AM by No Elephants
admitted a few years ago he was Republican only bc he didn't know any better. (Before JFK, African-Americans were "Lincoln Republicans" as sharply distinguished from today's Log Cabin Republicans).
On edit: I should say Brooke "claimed" rather than Brooke "admitted." When he ran, he may have thought that being Republican gave him a better chance. (At that time, Massachusetts was not as blue as it has been since JFK.) Sorry, I just can't take anything a Republican says at face value, even one who now says being Republican was based on a misperception.)
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