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Smarmie Doofus

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3. There does seem to be a trend toward left-alternatives, at least in the blue states.

Reply to Joel thakkar (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 09:12 AM

Nov 2013

Whether they identify publicly as "socialist" or not.

DeBlasio's 70% victory here is part of that.

This recession-without-end and a growing awareness of the excesses... foreign and domestic... of our rulers *seems* to have awakened a lot of people.

For whatever reason... it appears that people are voting more intelligently.

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