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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 12:46 PM Nov 2012

Bill Bennett starts the blame game on Education - "Republicans lost the culture war"

Hope this hasn't been posted already....

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(CNN) -- President Obama won the 2012 presidential election by accumulating some of the most one-sided electoral constituencies in modern political history.

Looking at a breakdown of the 2012 election exit polling, Obama won the 18- to 29-year-old vote 60% to 37%, in spite of the fact that half of all recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.

He won women by 11 points and unmarried women by an incredible 36 points. The marriage gap was far greater than the gender gap.
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full article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/bennett-gop-election/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7


So instead of Bennett offering some introspection, he immediately goes on to blame Education for the reason they lost the culture war.

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