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girl gone mad

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4. It's interesting that Gingrich is now using populist themes..

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 06:11 PM

Jan 2012

to pull ahead of Romney.

We may end up with two fake populists running in the General election, which will make for an interesting dynamic. I think the public has come a long way toward understanding why our standard of living and quality of life has deteriorated so dramatically over the last few decades, but there is still much work to be done in getting people to accept that progressive solutions are better than conservative ones.

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