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yeoman6987

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9. Don't underestimate the voters

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 19, 2015, 10:07 AM

Aug 2015

1981-1992 GOP
1992-2000 DNC
2001-2008 GOP
2009-2016 DNC

History shows voters to be fickle. Yes 2000 was stolen but it was too close for a VP well known named candidate.

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WaPo: Did Republicans just give away the 2016 election by raising birthright citizenship? [View all] spanone Aug 2015 OP

That all depends fredamae Aug 2015 #1

Jeb Bush holds the line against this exboyfil Aug 2015 #2

"Let's get lost in the Bushes again!" struggle4progress Aug 2015 #5

Don't underestimate the voters yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #9

An attack on "birthright citizenship" is an attack on the Fourteenth Amendment struggle4progress Aug 2015 #3

Yup. tazkcmo Aug 2015 #6

I've heard it described as the "cold civil war". Seems applicable to me. mulsh Aug 2015 #10

I think the concern is more with recent immigrants pscot Aug 2015 #11

How could the loud objections to "birthright citizenship" be understood as anything other struggle4progress Aug 2015 #16

They gave it up some time ago without this. randome Aug 2015 #4

It just not Mexicans. There are plently of Europeans, Asians, Iliyah Aug 2015 #7

Exactly, we are all anchor babies! B Calm Aug 2015 #8

Yep if they propose revoking birthright citizenship then people of other nationalities could raise Monk06 Aug 2015 #12

good point. they can't seem to deport the undocumented already here treestar Aug 2015 #13

On a related note: The Wacky Birther Cases Against 4 GOP Candidates - Cruz, Rubio, Jindal & Santorum pampango Aug 2015 #14

Maybe Trump really is an undercover Democrat. Jim__ Aug 2015 #15