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crazycatlady

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5. This is Utah

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Mon May 22, 2017, 06:47 PM

May 2017

One of the most conservative states in the country (maybe the most).

Jim Matheson represented a conservative state. He voted that way as expected. Not perfect, but better than the alternative. (See Manchin, Joe).

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