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2016 Postmortem

BlueCaliDem

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4. His suggestions are just more hot air. I would have been more impressed had he stayed in Congress

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 02:00 PM

Dec 2015

to vote against the Republican bill to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood.

Huge fail there.

Yes, I know that the bill would have passed even with his vote. But he's campaigning on health care reform and women's reproductive rights, and voting against the Republican bill would have boosted his credibility on those issues. He chose not to do the right thing, so it just appears as if he's all talk, no action.

For some people, that might be all they need, but for me, votes matter. In that he's failed me as an ObamaCare recipient and as a woman.

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His suggestions are just more hot air. I would have been more impressed had he stayed in Congress BlueCaliDem Dec 2015 #4

He'll never impress you zalinda Dec 2015 #8

Actually, he has - up until he decided not to vote against the Republican bill. BlueCaliDem Dec 2015 #13

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