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cascadiance

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4. But as the article noted, the concern is the two parties controlling what questions are asked...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:51 PM
Jun 2015

... and their efforts to shut out third party voices in these debates, which is why we have such a corporatocracy these days, when perhaps candidates like Obama would have been more challenged in debates about what specifically he would do on free trade bills that would either have warned the voters what he was going to try to do with TPP/TPA these days, or would have made it more clear that he was lying to get elected.

The same for Republicans too. I wonder how many Republicans would have liked seeing how their party would support Obama getting Fast Track authority more than the Democratic Party has.

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