• Posted Nov. 12, 2012 12:01 a.m.
  • Some younger Republicans want their party to break out of its right-wing media cocoon
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    The fighting among Republicans after last week’s election comes as no surprise, but THIS ANGLE to the rancor is especially interesting:

    A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week’s shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.

    GOP officials have chalked up their electoral thumping to everything from the country’s changing demographics to an ill-timed hurricane and failed voter turn-out system, but a cadre of Republicans under 50 believes the party’s problem is even more fundamental.

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