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In reply to the discussion: Democrats to Hillary: Thanks you but it's time to hang it up. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)despite being born in Park Ridge, Hillary was the Senator from New York. And Chicago isn't exactly the frontier. My point is, there's an orbit around the beltway and the West Coast seems pretty well forgotten- as evidenced by the way our East Coast party leadership (notwithstanding the votes in Mass. and Maine, which hopefully will telegram a clue or two) establishment types still treat pot legalization as some odd fringe position, despite the fact that 50 million people all up and down the entire fucking other side of the country have voted for it.
I mean, look, I get it. People in the music or film industry have a tough time if they don't actually live in LA, too. You're just not at the locus of where shit is happening.
But when's the last time we had someone from west of the Rockies on the Presidential ticket? Ask yourself that.