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Taking a Page from Obama

The RNC today launched RepublicanForAReason.com. The purpose of the website is to re-empower Republican supporters. It calls itself a “grassroots” effort whose aim is to rebuild a party that so quickly fell apart. And in the category of “if you can’t beat ‘em, copy ‘em,” the RNC’s new site has taken some of its styling ques from Obama’s presidential site.

I submit, for you consideration, the following:

How many similarities do you see?

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