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2016 Postmortem

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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8. Surprised he hasn't asked Bernie to step aside.

Reply to madfloridian (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:34 AM

Feb 2016

.....Reid's decision to take sides in a Democratic primary is unusual. But the Democratic establishment has been getting behind U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, seeing him as the stronger general election candidate in a swing state.

Given that the establishment sees Hillary as the stronger GE candidate.

But then maybe they figure with superdelegates they can just shunt him aside and hand it to Clinton after he wins the regular delegates.

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Harry Reid calls for Alan Grayson to drop out of primary. [View all] madfloridian Feb 2016 OP

The Democratic establishment have learned a lot from the Republicans. liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #1

Morals should matter for all candidates. JonLeibowitz Feb 2016 #2

Reminds me they kicked out the good morals guy to let the Repub bad morals guy run. madfloridian Feb 2016 #4

Thanks for the heads up. I'm off, to donate again to Grayson. Gonna double it this time. nt silvershadow Feb 2016 #3

me too. I have only donated to his campaign once. He obviously needs our support, so I will liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #5

Debbie likes her ex-republican pets like Patrick Murphy and Charlie Crist. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #6

Is it true? Did Grayson use his office to promote his Cayman Islands hedge fund? SunSeeker Feb 2016 #7

Surprised he hasn't asked Bernie to step aside. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #8

DWS wasn't available to do that? Wilms Feb 2016 #9

Read the NYT article. cali Feb 2016 #10

The Progressive Caucus here was threatened with "disqualification" or something like that, down here djean111 Feb 2016 #11

Didn't Harry Reid used to be someone??? EOM catnhatnh Feb 2016 #12

Yeah - who needs this thing called democracy anyway? eom Nanjeanne Feb 2016 #13

It's none of Reid's fucking business... MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #14

.... madfloridian Feb 2016 #15