Healthcare reform: A prescription for the 2010 republican landslide?

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Saldin, Robert P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barack Obama; election; healthcare; parties; realignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951543624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1404     Document Type: Article

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