Photo: #Demostrators holds up banners during the taxpayer rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday , Sept. 12, 2009. Thousands of fiscal conservatives have packed streets in the nation's capital to protest what they consider the federal government's out-of-control spending.
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Demostrators holds up banners during the taxpayer rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday , Sept. 12, 2009. Thousands of fiscal conservatives have packed streets in the nation's capital to protest what they consider the federal government's out-of-control spending. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru speaks at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota about the state of conservatism within the Republican party. He argues that the GOP is endangering its future by focusing on narrow issues instead of trying to broaden its base.

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