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2016 Postmortem

JHB

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6. The Greens have had 20 years since Nader's run to build an effective lefty base...

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 11, 2016, 09:44 AM

Sep 2016

They do have some people here and there at municipal and county levels, but as far as I can tell their handful of state-level winners switched to "independent". In 20 years they have next to nothing, and have too often been willing take money from conservatives and play spoiler, letting ever-nuttier Republicans win.

Sanders was incomparably more effective in just a year and a half. But then, Bernie has been an effective public servant for over half-again that time, at city, state, and federal levels. And he knows who to work with in order to be effective.

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