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scheming daemons

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2. Even though all of that is true...
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:54 AM
Feb 2020

...the economy is good enough for most Americans that promising an economic "revolution" is a losing tact this time around.

In none of the purple states we need to win will this sell.


Yes, it sells among the 18-35 set .. but they will have half the turnout of the 35 and over set, in a GOOD year.


You have to go, ideologically, where the voters are.... and they aren't with Bernie (or even Liz).


The voters will accept a classic liberal .. but not a far left liberal.


There is no appetite for that among 60% or more of the voting population. There just isn't.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

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