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Opinion: Is it a blue wave or a ripple?

Headlines range from a neutral question about a "blue wave" to partisan attacks on Trump and skepticism about the wave's likelihood.

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What happenedOpinion: Is it a blue wave or a ripple?.
What changedThe left frames it as "'Do better': GOP legend blisters Trump for 'blundering' into blue wave". The right frames it as "Opinion: Is it a blue wave or a ripple?".
ConfidenceLow. The source map includes different article formats, so wording may reflect format as well as framing.
Archive healthDeveloping · related angle

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Center-right ·Opinion

Opinion: Is it a blue wave or a ripple?

OpinionIs it a blue wave or a ripple?

Election Day is nigh. Republicans are panicking while Democrats wonder if the polls are too good to be true. Trump’s approval is shrinking. Even his own party is up in arms over foreign gif...

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Left ·News report
AlterNet19m ago

'Do better': GOP legend blisters Trump for 'blundering' into blue wave

blistersTrumpblunderingblue wave

Republican strategist Karl Rove cultivated a career as the mastermind behind the success of George W. Bush and other Republican leaders, but Rove says President Donald Trump is delivering t...

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Center-left ·News report

Democrats want a blue wave. New Hampshire is Exhibit A for why that may not happen

wantmay not happen

Five weeks before Election Day, Democratic optimism is soaring. But glaring vulnerabilities threaten to undermine the unstoppable blue wave that Democrats believe is coming. Look no further...

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