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hfojvt

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33. I have seen party leadership take a side in a primary

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 05:28 PM

Nov 2014

and I could see then how supporters of the losing candidate might be complaining about how the Democratic Party machine kept them from winning.

And I am thinking, well if this candidate cannot beat the Democratic Party machine, then how will he/she defeat the much more formidable Republican Party machine in the fall?

Not that I think the party should take sides. In both cases that I have seen, it has led to the losing candidate leaving the party, and they both were former state senators.

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