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On the recordOctober 31, 2004
He had to speak about what he thought was most important, where he was more credible, where his heart was. And he found that voice, as Tucker says, when he started critiquing the current operations in Iraq, and I think that's done him an enormous amount of good.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Paul Begala explains how John Kerry's shift to critiquing the Iraq operations positively impacted his campaign.

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