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Hillary Clinton

PDittie

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3. It feels a lot like 1980 also

Reply to aka-chmeee (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:09 PM

May 2016

With Sanders as Ted Kennedy and Hillary as Jimmy Carter. As we all know, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan out of that, and a yuuuuuge wall of Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and then former Democrats.

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Reflection upon another primary and general election. [View all] aka-chmeee May 2016 OP

It's a good analogy. yallerdawg May 2016 #1

Like the way you played down the consequences of the 68 convention liberal N proud May 2016 #2

It feels a lot like 1980 also PDittie May 2016 #3

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Your posts are welcome as far as I am concerned. BootinUp May 2016 #5