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2016 Postmortem

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts) Sun May 17, 2015, 11:46 AM May 2015

Can anyone else ever remember another candidate clearly running for POTUS

Without declaring in order to coordinate with PACs to amass millions of dollars to run? Where is the FEC? Does anyone think a dem would get away with this?

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Can anyone else ever remember another candidate clearly running for POTUS (Original Post) onecaliberal May 2015 OP

Who are we talking about? yeoman6987 May 2015 #1

Jeb, I think.... dhill926 May 2015 #2

Also Walker dragonlady May 2015 #4

Yeb. Yuck. Buzz Clik May 2015 #3

Applies to the whole Repub field... Wounded Bear May 2015 #5

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. Who are we talking about?

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2015, 11:52 AM

May 2015

dhill926

(16,953 posts)

2. Jeb, I think....

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Sun May 17, 2015, 12:02 PM

May 2015

dragonlady

(3,577 posts)

4. Also Walker

Reply to dhill926 (Reply #2)

Sun May 17, 2015, 02:33 PM

May 2015

He's hardly ever in Wisconsin anymore. Not yet ready to decide whether he's running for president, though.

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

3. Yeb. Yuck.

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2015, 12:12 PM

May 2015

If nothing else, he will be quite enriched from this experience.

$$$

Wounded Bear

(64,094 posts)

5. Applies to the whole Repub field...

Reply to Buzz Clik (Reply #3)

Mon May 18, 2015, 01:36 AM

May 2015

Most all of them know they don't have a snowball's chance in a jacuzzi of winning. But they'll make tons of scratch doing it..

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