A Super Tuesday Reality Check

Washington Post

Tomorrow’s Super Tuesday primaries will offer a good reality check of where the Republican Party really stands on social issues vs. economic issues in 2012.

According to a Gallup survey from mid-February, the economy took first place on the list of what American voters care about. 92 percent ranked the economy as extremely important or very important and “social issues such as gay marriage and abortion” were last with 38 percent. (The numbers shifted slightly, to 94 percent and 46 percent respectively, among Republicans.) So, deciding what to talk about should not be hard. Whether it is religion, sex or race, when Republicans go there, we enter a minefield. National GOP candidates and party leaders are pushing their luck, and we are doing what our opponents want us to do. The slightest misstep, or even just bad luck, can spring the trap.

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