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Junior Chimp
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« on: November 05, 2014, 05:27:58 PM » |
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Nathan's post is really quite excellent and about sums up the current situation in this country. Scott and Brownback (!) got re-elected. With the exception of Pennsylvania, not a single one of the Rust Belt state Republican governors (Walker, Kasich, Snyder) lost despite their anti-labour records. Even Shumlin's election came down to the wire and considering the third-place candidate in Vermont was Libertarian, quite possibly would have lost had that candidate not run. Is the American citizenry so malleable that the only difference in their vote is whether the Republican candidate makes a gaffe with regards to abortion?
If there be a silver lining to this, its that there's a firm progressive majority on most political issues.
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