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Small Edition   The GOP, On the Road to Coolsville  Assuming
Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee next
year, we already know that the Republican candidate will be
younger than the Democrat, maybe by just a few years (if it's
Jeb Bush or Rick Perry, both in their 60s), but maybe by quite a
bit. Marco Rubio is not only just 43, he also likes hip-hop (as
he never tires of letting people know). Is it possible that the
Republican Party will actually have a nominee who's cool? Or at
least cooler than the Democrat? Conservative columnist Matt
Lewis thinks so:  Like the products we purchase, the candidates
we support say something about who we are (or, at least, who we
want people to think we are). We might want to believe that our
preference has to do with a candidate's policy positions, and in
many cases it does. But it's also at least partly about cultural
signaling. We all want to be seen affiliating with a cool brand,
and we inter