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According to a new survey by Pew Research, only 25% of Americans offer a name when asked who they think of as the current leader of the Republican Party, 60% say they don't know who the leader is and 18% say they believe that 'nobody' leads the party. That's good news for while a political party should have various organizational positions within it, it should be led by the wishes and will of the people not any individual. This is the case with the current GOP.

Jeopardy question... What is - A party of elitists who are in denial about their losses, who fail to recognize that they aren't on the same page with their party's leadership, who appear blind to the concerns of the local electorate and local activists, and who at times appear to have lost their way from their founding? Answer is - The Democrat Party in 2004? Good guess and yes - but you'd also be describing today's Michigan GOP. In the month since President Bush was re-elected and claimed a mandate, the state GOP here in Michigan was acting like they...

<p>ONE OF THE THINGS that makes the observation of politics an enduring if guilty delight - I mean, besides Robert G. Torricelli; he will be missed - is the spectacle of the Republican and Democratic parties committing the same acts of self-destruction over and over.</p>