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In reply to the discussion: Thoughts on voting in a GOP primary [View all]slay
(7,670 posts)16. I think the reason Huntsman gets in is that he is polling around 2%
and I think that is the cutoff to be in the debates. Johnson has been in a couple of the debates i think when he met the criteria. i blame the media in large part for him not getting the 2% needed to get invited to the debates - nobody knows he's even running! and it's not like he's a nobody - he was Governor of New Mexico for 8 years. it is odd how nobody in the media talks about him at all though.
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Why don't you run for Congress? Sounds like your district could use you. As to your
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
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You might be surprised, especially if you ran as a 99%er against the 1%, how
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Dec 2011
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