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brer cat

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4. It is hard for women and minorities
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 10:43 PM
Nov 2015

to rejoice when conservatives win, but as a life-long southerner I have learned to appreciate even small victories. He is indeed a big improvement over Jindal and Vitter, and the Medicaid expansion alone is huge (I wish we had it in Georgia). My hope is that over time the election of conservative democrats will lead to moderate and liberal-leaning democrats becoming more acceptable to traditionally red-state voters.

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