Why did conservative white Democrats like John Edwards so much in '08? (user search)
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Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers
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« on: May 22, 2012, 11:37:26 AM »

Because he can talk about the blue and red divide without offending white working-class agricultural farmers eventhough he is a trial lawyer and fancy hairdoes. He is one of them by talking about being from a textile mill worker family. He has a southern twang.
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Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers
olawakandi
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Posts: 88,671
Jamaica
Political Matrix
E: -6.84, S: -0.17


« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2015, 03:01:56 PM »

He ended up being a dud of a debator, with Cheney, and costing Kerry OH.  Which Gephardt or Mark Warner would have been happy to do a better job at being a running mate.
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