Quoted: ?I think it is clear that the Republican party has shifted to the right, since 2001 when Governor Thompson was last in office,? said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at UW Madison. ?He may have a harder time selling some of the interest groups and activist groups within the party and outside the party, that he really is walking the walk and not just talking the talk, on this new, considerably more conservative Republican party.?
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