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The Politics of Behind Norquist's No-Tax Pledge | Synopsis

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The Politics of Behind Norquist's No-Tax Pledge

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Norquist is not a publicly elected official or even a government appointee. The 56-year-old conservative leader is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform and promoter of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge -- better known as the Norquist Pledge. Americans for Tax Reform opposes tax increases, and the Norquist Pledge calls on members of Congress to do just that. Taken at face value, this pledge poses a big roadblock to any compromise with Democrats in the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations, even though several prominent Republican leaders have recently signaled an openness to put everything on the table in negotiations, which would seem to violate the pledge. If the goal at the end of these negotiations is compromise, could there be political risk in Republicans' violating a pledge formulated by a person most Americans have probably never heard of? Actually, yes.

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Grover Norquist

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Larry Sabato

Overall Sentiment: 0.202522

Relevance: 0.736614

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0"It's all about the GOP base," said Larry Sabato, ...
-0.0218315"It's all about the GOP base," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Most of the Republican House members and a large number of the party's senators are very safe in a general election. No Democrat can beat them. The only place they can lose is in the low-turnout party primary, which is usually dominated by strong conservatives for whom the word 'tax' is almost an obscenity."
0"These activist voters listen to Norquist and his organization, and they have the money to get the message out to voters in TV ads and mailings," Sabato said. ...
-0.0310854"These activist voters listen to Norquist and his organization, and they have the money to get the message out to voters in TV ads and mailings," Sabato said. "A Republican member tagged with supported tax increases is awarded the political kiss of death."
0.0981681"The GOP primary electorate is very conservative in the South, so I would think Saxby Chambliss and Lindsey Graham would have to be somewhat concerned, even though they both start out as clear favorites," Sabato said. ...
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  • Mean: 0.00905024
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Saxby Chambliss

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Relevance: 0.735177

SentimentQuote
0.243116"I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss said ...
0.0813682"I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss said in an interview with WMAZ-TV in Macon, Ga. "If we do it his way, then we'll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.3244842
  • Mean: 0.1622421
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Lindsey Graham

Overall Sentiment: 0.133957

Relevance: 0.578024

SentimentQuote
-0.0240383"I agree with Grover -- we shouldn't raise rates -- but I think Grover is wrong when it comes to we can't cap deductions and buy down debt," Graham said ...
0.0280351"I agree with Grover -- we shouldn't raise rates -- but I think Grover is wrong when it comes to we can't cap deductions and buy down debt," Graham said on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."
Sentiment Stats:
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Orrin Hatch

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Bob Bennett

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Richard Lugar

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Relevance: 0.317503

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George Stephanopoulos

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Amy Walter

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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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