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Bernie Sanders

Jackpine Radical

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13. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum can make for an interesting race.

Reply to merrily (Reply #1)

Thu May 21, 2015, 10:50 PM

May 2015

Who made the latest gaffe, who got a $500 haircut, etc. But when you get someone trying to run who threatens to rock the boat, you sink them as quickly as possible. The Dean Scream was a flat-out media concoction, but it did its job. Now they want to nip Bernie before he even gets to the bud stage, so they got him on the Big Ignore™.

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