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The GOP is writing off young women, and will suffer for it

One deftly worded tweet.

That's all it took for a 19-year-old college student to school GOP pooh-bah Mike Huckabee about voter demographics.

Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, likes to let loose his stilted wit on Twitter, and the other day he chose to mock pop star Taylor Swift's appeal to her bazillions of followers on Instagram to register and vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

Nothing to worry about there, Huckabee tweeted, "...

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