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Bernie will not have a movement if he can't get people elected at the state and congressional level.  Otherwise it's…
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Every country that uses first-past-the-post elections will have two main parties.  Even most single member district systems force people into…
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Warren's agenda isn't that different from Clinton's.  She tends to be more regulatory in her approach, which is more similar…
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Isn't there a nice, progressive governor out there under the age of 60?  How is Jay Inslee?   If I…
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If Cicero had had Cheetos, you know he would have done this, too.
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#NeverTrump..... ....#YeahPrettyMuchTrump
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I'm not sure I can explain why, but I'm literally tearing up over this.  Let's get Frederick Douglass and Chief…
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And that's why Sanders ultimately won't be the nominee.  That's why only a handful of Democrats in Congress and state…
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I would agree: get rid of the caucuses.   Second, have Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada all go…
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And appealing to the sort of voters who only show up for general elections is...how you win general elections.  
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You set up and knock down so many strawmen, I can't tell if this is another one, but Sanders isn't…
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Congrats....But wait until tomorrow. See if you can move then.  Fitness is really about recovery, not just wind.
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Tough to prove a counterfactual, but I imagine if we didn't intervene, we would have been looking at a repeat…
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Democrats always fare poorly because they have to put forward an actual governing agenda.  They have to "do things" that…
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If there were plenty of people, Sanders wouldn't be trailing Clinton by a total of over a million votes. There…
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I'll take some of it on. It wasn't just McGovern.  It was Mondale.  It was Dukakis.  And it was Dubya.…
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It's a testament to how insane the GOP has become that frankly Nancy Reagan's astrologer was probably better at making…
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To win elections to the point of governing, you have to be a broad coalition.  We have two parties.  For…
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Wilsonian sought to end war through collective security.  Neo-Conservatives seek American hegemony to create "peace." So that would be my…
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Cleek's Law. I can try every other explanation, but it always comes back to Cleek's Law.
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