GOP candidates’ wording on Web strikingly similar

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Several Republican candidates for Congress in Wisconsin and other states are using nearly identical language on their Web sites as they try to sway voters.

Presenting the ideas as their own, the candidates have posted strikingly similar passages detailing their stances on such issues as the economy, taxes and jobs, a review of their sites found. The similarity raises the question of whether some of the candidates are plagiarizing each other or whether they are all taking their language from a common source.
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In a political world where staying on message is increasingly valued, both national political parties can distribute homogenized talking points to candidates across the country, said Nathan Gonzales, a political editor at the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report.

“Some candidates do a better job of putting it in their own words,” said Gonzales, noting that candidates also can draw on their parties’ Web sites, briefings and even “candidate schools” where aspiring politicians can receive party training.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/94796819.html

Hmmmmmmmm.........

[Lasher]

1. The pundits must be tapped into this same source.

The fax machine in Cheney's cave, I suppose.

[KittyWampus]

3. It's Grover Norquist.

[Lasher]

4. The best grassroots movement money can buy. n/t

[KittyWampus]

2. In a way, I don't begrudge the candidates the help they get. Would that the Democratic Party also

put even a FRACTION of effort into getting our pols in synch on policy and grooming them for tv.

TV isn't about making rational arguments. It's having effective soundbits to repeat over and over.

Democrats all too often look like deer in the headlights or a "liberal elite egghead" as they try to explain their position and wait politely for the Republican on screen to finish their "point".