The real reason there are so many threads about alleged "Progressive vote suppression"

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34. Great post. Captures the entire situation.

If the politicians with the "D" after their name used the expression "middle class" or working class as often as they trot out their support for equal pay for women etc, then maybe more people would be turning out in November.

I plan on voting in November, but only because of a local issue that has not been endorsed by either party. My Blue Dawgie Congress critter makes me ill. I hate throwing my vote away to a third party person who cannot win, but then in my book, a Democrat should be and should talk and act like a Democrat if they want my vote. This person's attacks on Social Security definitely turned me off to him, and I have the feeling that as the Big Time Frackers wet their whistle on California farm land, we are in big trouble if either a Democrat or a Republican occupy the House - at least if it is a guy as Blue Dawg as the one that is running.

And of course, a lot of what the elections in California are about are how well connected you are to one Diane Feinstein. About the only person in the state's recent history who has never had to pay her any attention is Jerry Brown, but most people who would like to run for office do not come from the likes of his Big Time Political Family.