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Old Wed Jan 19, 2005, 04:32pm
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REPLY: Actually the term was coined in 1884 to denote a person who bolted from the Republican party. It's now more commonly used to describe a political independent: neither Democrat or Republican; neither fish nor foul; neither lineman nor back.
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