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2016 Postmortem

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12. VT was a liberal bastion way before Bernie. Why do you think Bernie moved there from Brooklyn?nt

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 12:11 AM

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Vermont electorate is 95% white [View all] brentspeak Aug 2015 OP

Sometimes people do things because it's the right thing to do. Snotcicles Aug 2015 #3

i agree. nt DesertFlower Aug 2015 #8

Why is it overwhelmingly liberal then? Reter Aug 2015 #2

Bernie evolved them. nt Snotcicles Aug 2015 #4

I don't know... some here would say GUNZ lol. cherokeeprogressive Aug 2015 #13

I was being totally facetious. n/t cherokeeprogressive Aug 2015 #15

I know. nt SunSeeker Aug 2015 #17

Not exactly jfern Aug 2015 #22

It has been a liberal refuge since the 1960s. SunSeeker Aug 2015 #28

But it voted Republican jfern Aug 2015 #29

bullshit Bernie evolved us. cali Aug 2015 #20

I am sure that when Bernie was a kid in Brooklyn RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #5

i'm almost 74. we lived in ridgewood, queens -- DesertFlower Aug 2015 #7

: ) peacebird Aug 2015 #26

It gets really tiresome, doesn' it? Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #9

Good point. moondust Aug 2015 #10

actually there is. cali Aug 2015 #21

No super black majority black congressperson should ever run for POTUS musiclawyer Aug 2015 #11

as someone said upthread, restorefreedom Aug 2015 #16

Vermont is an odd duck. yes, it's overwhelmingly white cali Aug 2015 #19

Sanders endorsed Jackson in 1988 jfern Aug 2015 #23

Does that even make sense? brentspeak Aug 2015 #32