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AS Rep. Jim Talent (R., Mo.) watched election returns from his brother’s tavern in St. Louis on November 3, he began to sense a major GOP shakeup. “The disappointing Indiana and Kentucky results came in, and then we didn’t win open seats in the South,” he says. “By about ten o’clock, I knew there had to be a leadership change.”

Around the country, other members of Congress were reaching the same conclusion. They spent the next two days blitzing each other with cell-phone calls.

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John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

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AS Rep. Jim Talent (R., Mo.) watched election returns from his brother’s tavern in St. Louis on November 3, he began to sense a major GOP shakeup. “The disappointing Indiana and Kentucky results came in, and then we didn’t win open seats in the South,” he says. “By about ten o’clock, I knew there had to be a leadership change.”

Around the country, other members of Congress were reaching the same conclusion. They spent the next two days blitzing each other with cell-phone calls.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.