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"The Overton window, in political theory, describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue. It is named after its originator, Joseph P. Overton1, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy."
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September 16, 2010