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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In a comment to a post about Ashley Judd on Slate March 11 2013:
“With the Tea Party, no Republican is a shoe-in anymore.”
There were a few replies to the comment, none of them taking exception to the formulation—a search here doesn’t turn it up. Do I get a medal?
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No medal for me. I searched again with the hyphen, and found it was common.
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