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In reply to the discussion: I'm Loving The Fact That Even Though Hillary Hasn't Declared... There Is Such Push Back Here... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)control once again, over who gets to choose the candidate. And Hillary is not in the running for most Progressives. Sanders and Warren and Grayson among others are hugely popular with the voters and we are way more informed NOW than we were when Bush was the 'threat' being used, successfully unfortunately to influence the voters to support candidates who were on the bottom of their lists.
That won't happen again. We got Bush anyhow, didn't we? And we learned.
Recent polls show now that fewer and fewer people identify with either party. The Dems despise Liberals? Yes, we know that but times are changing. 'You have nowhere to go' is how they got our votes. Really? They need to get out of the DC bubble, yes I know about that, I worked inside it and saw how out of touch they are.
We played the game right up to the last election, but they can no longer depend on those they have so much obvious disdain for, being there this time.
The largest voting bloc now is Independent as more and more people take them at their word. They despise Liberal Ideas, fine get elected without them. IF you can. With a Corporate Candidate, they don't stand a chance, but they still don't seem to get it. People have 'moved on' just like they 'moved on' from War Crimes and Wall St. Crimes.