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NewDayOranges

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1. Republican and conservative operatives are very good at identifying

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2019, 05:10 AM

Apr 2019

up and coming Dems of the future and so they are pre-emptively scuffing up the images of AOC, Cong Ilhan Omar and Cong Tlaib and branding these women with the "angry", "looney" and "divisive" tags...

We saw how well 17 years of republicans and conservatives branding Hillary Clinton as "divisive" worked in 2008 and 2016, didn't we?

The republican smear machine job on AOC, Cong Omar and Cong Tlaib doesn't work on us but for Dems who don't spend a lot of time on DU (about 95% of Dems) their constant exposure on Fox News and other right-wing outlets damages their images among left-leaning voters as well...

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Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running - 3,181 times [View all] Eugene Apr 2019 OP

Republican and conservative operatives are very good at identifying NewDayOranges Apr 2019 #1

EXACTLY. Same with Liz Warren. sharedvalues Apr 2019 #3

I believe that the real problem is that there is NewDayOranges Apr 2019 #4

Both. sharedvalues Apr 2019 #5

welcome to DU gopiscrap Apr 2019 #6

AOC Rocks! Vacuous Virgina Apr 2019 #2