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25. I know one

Reply to niyad (Reply #21)

Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:16 AM

Oct 2015

But he's not in politics, and doesn't always vote for his party's candidate if he feels they suck, which has been an ever more frequent occurrence since 2008.

As far as anyone in elective office--no, no one. They've all either retired or were primaried out of existence. They'd have to produce a complete outsider, say someone like Trump with the brains of Al Gore.

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