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Politics
Kirk Swearingen

Blue in a red state: It's important

Consider the story of the person who runs toward a car crash or into a burning building. Tripp Narup would never equate what he is doing with an act of heroism, but I'm happy to do so. The impulse is pretty much the same.

He's not trying to save an individual's life but the life of the Democratic Party in his part of Iowa.

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