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Old 03-05-2012, 07:48 PM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by Brujah View Post
At this point, I feel I should offer this point for consideration... if a defender of any party or position needs to omit the large detail of the facts, and take a small subset of the issue out of the greater context, you are probably safe in the knowledge that there's something wrong in their position. It should be very telling all by itself.
Politifact rated as completely true the statement that the republicans "fought very hard to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill".

Politifact also notes that some democrats were strong supporters, while mentioning that 3/4 of the opposition was democrats.
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