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EffieBlack

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12. We've been losing those seats, but not because we haven't reached out enough to white working class
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 09:50 AM
Dec 2016

In fact, candidates have neen reaching out to them TOO much, shape-shifting and running away from the Democratic base and principles, trying to convince them they're not all that different from conservative Republican candidates. The candidates who do that keep getting their asses kicked - as Harry Truman said, "Given a choice between a fake Republican and a real one, the public will choose the real Republican every time."

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