Steve Inskeep talks with Mark McKinnon, a strategist who advised George W. Bush and John McCain, and Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster and political adviser, about how the debt ceiling and deficit debate has affected the parties and the implications for 2012.
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Analysis: How The Parties Fared In The Debt Debate
NPR – August 4, 2011
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Steve Inskeep talks with Mark McKinnon, a strategist who advised George W. Bush and John McCain, and Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster and political adviser, about how the debt ceiling and deficit debate has affected the parties and the implications for 2012.