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Craig234

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Sat Sep 14, 2013, 10:04 PM
Sep 2013

Thanks. Fair discussion about money for our dem leaders, there are legitimate controversies.

There are tradeoffs between fighting the large issue of the money, and needing that money to win while it's allowed.

And that's in the best situation of a well intentioned politicians, who has access to some of that money somehow (they've got to be limited how much they can get from people whose agenda they oppose. How much will Wall Street give to Elizabeth Warren?)

Other times, you get situation such as when a 'Democratic constituency' has a right-winger who wants to win, running as a Democrat, an elephant in donkey clothing. or the classic example being 'liberal' Mitt Romney running for governor of Massachussetts.

The answer so often in politicis is organziation - where is the group with a 'litmus test' similar to the Norquist tax pledge, but for voting for something like a constitutional amendment ending corporate personhood?

With the high level of public support for that, where's the organzzation to make people lose races over it?

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