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On the recordOctober 31, 2010
I think the Republican establishment thinks there are a lot of people in Washington who think they're on the brink of taking -- they're going to take the House tomorrow and they're going to -- got a good chance of taking the Senate two years from now, and they have got a very real chance of taking the White House.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen discusses the Republican establishment's optimism about upcoming elections.

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