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malthaussen

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16. It's a State matter.

Reply to MsLeopard (Reply #15)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 08:15 PM

Dec 2016

Mr Obama is not an interventionist President to begin with, and he's certainly not likely to interfere with an internal North Carolina matter. He didn't intervene in Wisconsin under similar conditions, after all.

And the poor sucker has rather a lot on his plate, just now.

-- Mal

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