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Democratic Primaries

Byronic

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4. Quite right.

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 25, 2019, 05:17 AM

Feb 2019

At this stage it's a celebrity contest. Nobody has proved anything yet. It's a very long road.

I like to think that a smaller, less-funded, less initially well-known, candidate can still pull a Jimmy Carter, win Iowa and come from nowhere.

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

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