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Tom Davis: GOP Focusing on ‘Trivial Pursuits’

Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who now leads the centrist Republican Main Street Partnership, said the GOP has lost federal elections for focusing on “trivial pursuits,” such as stem cell policy or prayer in schools.

“Not so long ago, it was easy to paint the Democrats as the party of extremists,” Davis wrote in The Ripon Forum, the publication of a centrist Republican think tank. “Now, they say we