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sabrina 1

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3. Good article. I think the answer is fairly simple. To the question of why they seem to be lost as to
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 11:18 PM
Nov 2014

what their goals/message is that the Third Way has a very different agenda to what the Dem Party presents itself to be. And over the past few decades, they and the money they bring to the Party, have gained control. But they know that to continue to get the votes of the base, they have to at least pretend to care about issues that the Dem Party claims to be supportive of. But it's getting more and difficult to present themselves as the Party of the People when there is so much obvious influence by Wall St.

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