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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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4. There have been any number of polls showing that on single issues, Americans actually favour

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2015, 02:45 PM

May 2015

all sorts of 'liberal' policies. That, indeed, a large liberal 'wish list' falls solidly within what a majority of Americans support, often by 2-1 margins.

Then they turn around and elect politicians who won't ever implement those polices.

A lot of the people who bother to vote don't actually vote based on policies.

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