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Democrats are stealing a page out of Sybil in their approach to House Republican Whip Eric Cantor.

Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said yesterday that he will reach out to the Virginia Republican, who has said the two parties agree on 80 percent of a health care overhaul.

"I'm going to reach out to a number of Republicans in the next day," Hoyer told reporters. "I want to find out what that 80 percent is, because if we have 80 percent we ought to work on the other 20 percent."

But a few hours later the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which orchestrates the party's national House campaign strategy, circulated an item from the liberal Website thinkprogress slamming Cantor.