STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Imagine for a moment the reaction if a Republican candidate for any office, let alone president of the United States, took a position opposed by 87 percent of the country.

The press would immediately report how “extreme” that position, and then pundits would spend a week reinforcing that extremist label with a variety of different modifiers.

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