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coco22

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22. That is because most of the senators are..

Reply to Longtime lurker 99 (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:35 AM

Jan 2017

bluedogs or republican lite until some major issue comes up where Dems need to win then the so called Dems runs to help their REAL party,Lieberman comes to mind.

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