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LWolf

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40. Okay.

Reply to demwing (Reply #39)

Wed Oct 22, 2014, 09:35 AM

Oct 2014

Given that, then nobody should be trying to limit the field to mainstream corporate candidates before the primary season even opens.

Those mainstream candidates, like HRC and Biden, will be there no matter what. The "encouragement" and attention should be directed at those out of the mainstream corporate stranglehold.

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