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rtassi

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13. That is not how it happened ...

Reply to LoisB (Reply #10)

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 07:43 PM

Jan 2013

and if you knew more about Maine you would be more thoughtful about your remarks ... you sound like an idiot when you pontificate like that! It happened because we had an independent candidate and a dem who could not reach an accommodation with each other ... either could have easily won, if one or the other would have dropped out and endorsed the other ... they each stubbornly stood their ground and handed it to this asshat

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