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    But isn't one of the points here that self-identified "progressives" who can't win, say, 80+% of the African-American vote and…
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    • Just for the record, about 25 million Americans (already) have health insurance because of the ACA.  Over 100 million have…
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    • Thanks for your comment.  Just anecdotal evidence from me: it was Obama's Iowa win that switched a lot of African-American…
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    • Thanks, and thanks for the pushing me to clarify.
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    • No, I disagree with them.  I think it's pretty clear that Keynes was right and that Roosevelt's willingness to be…
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    • Maybe! Or maybe Roosevelt's popularity came from the fact that he took office 3 1/2 years after market crash that…
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    • Thanks for the reply, but your Wikipedia citation is from 1933, after the campaign was over. Eighty years from now,…
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    • Thanks for your comment.  Just a point of clarification:  it wasn't Reconstruction that was the problem; it was the Redemption…
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    • Didn't FDR run in 19832 on reducing the federal deficit?
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    • Thanks for this, Booman.  Great post and question. Adding: Arkansas has a minimum wage referendum on the ballot in November…
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    • Thanks for this, Booman.  It's always interesting to read Giordano; and that 2007 Phoenix piece is brilliant.  (If you haven't…
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    • A half-decade of what has effectively been a recession for most Americans, preceded by a decade of little-or-no increase in…
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    • Good questions, but it looks like this is less a strategic billboard, and more the latest in a decades-long succession…
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    • True.  Heck, the Democratic side is even more boring than the Republican side.  At least on the Republican side people…
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    • Good advice, Booman.  It's Richard Nixon's (and, to be fair, lots of other candidates') basic campaign strategy: Run to the…
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    • Anyone who voted for Barack Obama thinking he was opposed to all wars, and wouldn't command the US military in…
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    • Sorry, what about 1988 favored a Democratic win?  
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    • Just to elaborate on the points already made in this thread: 1 - This has happened before.  Arizona, for example,…
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    • Thanks for this, Booman.  It all has painful echoes of the endless---and fruitless---search by Clinton's predecessors for indigenous anti-communist "moderates"…
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    • rikyrah can speak for herself, but based on what we do know about the Obamas I think it's reasonable to…
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