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Proud liberal 80

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4. It use to be

Reply to Big Blue Marble (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 17, 2020, 05:25 PM

Nov 2020

That the House was more partisan and had extremes because you didn’t have to win statewide. And the thought was that a senator would be more moderate and willing to compromise because he or she had to win statewide....but it doesn’t really play that way when a lot of these rural states (the Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho, etc) and in the Deep South you can win without being moderate....Hell even in the purple states (Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania) the GOP senators don’t moderate their views.

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There are about 30 Republican senators who are pure garbage [View all] Proud liberal 80 Nov 2020 OP

Yep! leftieNanner Nov 2020 #1

At least! Big Blue Marble Nov 2020 #2

Yep, a long time ago that was 100% true. You could even respect some of them. RKP5637 Nov 2020 #3

It use to be Proud liberal 80 Nov 2020 #4