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In reply to the discussion: Left wants challenger for Hillary Clinton [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)every 4 years upwards of 120 million people, based on 2012 totals, will actually pull a lever or check one of two boxes for the leader of the free world....warts and all.
I think that's why we will always end up with Center Right or Center Left at the end of the day. It's the proverbial grading curve. Everybody can't get an A and somebody has to get an F...theoretically. And that 60% in between the 20% Dependable Right and 20% Dependable Left somehow has to determine a Middle/or Center roughly leaning of 30% each...with a few Independents really calling the shots.
The system needs Populists to generate energy, new ideas, passion, disgust and set outer limits of political behavior, via impeachment or recall, but (and I'm going to catch it for this, likely) they typically serve to sway the curve. Again, like in school, maybe a couple of extra smart kids enroll mid-year...the curve changes.
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In the VA AG race...a near statistical impossibility. You don't get closer than that.
An aside: Great speech by Elizabeth Warren...shattering another glass ceiling !!