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vi5

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5. Or we could...I don't know....
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 05:15 PM
Jun 2017

...start trying to figure out a way to win over the tens of millions of people who don't vote?

Maybe?

I just can't wrap my heads around this insane notion that our options are either "Appeal to white bigots" or "Don't change anything at all about anything we do."

At what point did being a politician stop being about...you know....selling ones ideas and figuring out ways to make them appealing or any of that.

Part of the reason the GOP has been kicking our ass for decades now is their use of people like Frank Luntz who tells them the best way to appeal to people and get them to vote for them beyond just hoping they have an intricate knowledge and understanding of policy wonksmanship.

We need someone like that on our side, but more importantly we need leaders who are going to actually listen to it.

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