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I hate to make it Dump on Joel Week, and I ve got no big quibbles with the rest of his column, but this is the sort of conventional wisdom that really ticks me off:A tireless practitioner of town meetings, Baird had a grip on his southwest Washington district, which twice voted for President Bush. The political turf began to move beneath him last summer as tea baggers showed up at once-cordial sessions with voters.Joel could easily have written that the political turf began to move beneath Bai...

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