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Bernie Sanders

merrily

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15. Somehow, I had the same impression, until I looked into it.

Reply to udbcrzy2 (Reply #13)

Mon Jul 27, 2015, 11:18 AM

Jul 2015

I noticed that her wiki had been changed. Originally, it said that her father owned a small business. Later, it said he managed a small textile business. Luckily, after I noticed the change, his wiki was still untouched. He supplied hotel and motels with draperies. Sounds like a comfortable living in the 1940s to me. Women didn't go to Princeton Law School then. They were lucky to go to college.

A DUer's whose mom had grown up in the same area as Hillary confirmed that the area was very upscale. Plus, yes, they had a lake house or something like that. In the late Forties, and 1950s, that was not the typical middle class family. Of course, there's middle class, and then there's middle class.

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New Poll: Majority says: enough Bushes and Clintons in the Oval Office. [View all] merrily Jul 2015 OP

I'm surprised they'd even release that in the press - TBF Jul 2015 #1

Are the Hillary holdouts in your family older women? merrily Jul 2015 #2

No they are the more well-off democrats TBF Jul 2015 #3

I only know of one udbcrzy2 Jul 2015 #4

That's encouraging. merrily Jul 2015 #5

Welcome back to 1992 Proud Public Servant Jul 2015 #6

Coincidentally, this year makes 30 years since Back to the Future premiered. merrily Jul 2015 #8

Didn't mean to assume a Clinton nomination Proud Public Servant Jul 2015 #10

No worries. I did not get offended. merrily Jul 2015 #12

Bush is a Bush. Period, full stop. Darb Jul 2015 #7

You know this is the Sanders group and I didn't create the poll, right? merrily Jul 2015 #9

It's not beside the point, you are involved in it by posting it. Darb Jul 2015 #14

Bernie Sanders' supporters are "party faithful." merrily Jul 2015 #19

P.S. Bill's background wasn't all that poor for the time and Hillary lived in quite the upscale merrily Jul 2015 #11

Hillary's father udbcrzy2 Jul 2015 #13

Somehow, I had the same impression, until I looked into it. merrily Jul 2015 #15

Your opinion is not that accurate. Darb Jul 2015 #16

Please do not imply something that is so false. Yours were the inaccurate claims. merrily Jul 2015 #17

You said they were poor and middle-class right? udbcrzy2 Jul 2015 #18

+1 Yes, that is really inaccurate. merrily Jul 2015 #20

I'm not even going to ask you to delete your post. L0oniX Jul 2015 #21

IMO, a Bush/Clinton contest would result in the lowest voter turnover with a-- eridani Jul 2015 #22

Yes, and not only young ones. merrily Jul 2015 #23