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Bernie Sanders

Scootaloo

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1. No use in "pulling the debate left" - best to just push a left candidate!

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 07:13 PM

Apr 2015

There's no mechanism to force a politician to hold to anything they say in a debate. Your only guarantee is if you know that politician genuinely holds the beleifs and stances they espouse. We know Sanders does.

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No use in "pulling the debate left" - best to just push a left candidate! Scootaloo Apr 2015 #1

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