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In reply to the discussion: Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)64. It's not Obama's responsiblity to "inspire" voters
and lest you forget, he did a shitload of stumping for the close races...
Maybe I've been doing this wrong all this time --I've been voting all my life in almost every local-state-national race, regardless of whether or not I was "inspired"...
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Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]
Electric Monk
Mar 2016
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Or it could just be that young people are naturally drawn to outsider candidates?
Blue_Tires
Mar 2016
#2
Not sure it's that young people are drawn to outsiders. My take on recent elections.
PoliticalMalcontent
Mar 2016
#9
Or it could be that they know that Hillary has gambled their future away.
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#13
I think young people who pay any attention at all see what is going on a lot better than
TryLogic
Mar 2016
#15
"... Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues. "
Scuba
Mar 2016
#32
In the past, when teaching, I used tell kids that doing well in class would help then out in
DhhD
Mar 2016
#40
So much in Taibbi's article is the reality of how I see it. I just can't reconcile how this
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#42