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I've talked with some of the moderate/Blue Dogs. They feel that the platform being influenced by Sanders helped lose votes in 2016. They really underestimate how many people stayed home who were progressives, considering the vast majority of Republicans voted for Trump.

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This Ex-CIA Democrat Is Running as the Tough Guy Against Rep. Brat (guy who beat Eric Cantor in a primary)

 

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Then she threw in a dig at Brat for his embrace of President Donald Trump's soft attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin and his passivity about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election: "I'm the one who worked to protect the country from foreign threats."
 

Spanberger is one of a number of Democratic women running for office in November who are political novices with national-security backgrounds. She spent eight years in the Central Intelligence Agency in the U.S. and overseas, returning home four years ago. Early last year she said she heard Brat at a forum praising Trump's proposed ban on travel from a few predominantly Muslim countries as a national security measure and was dismayed.

 

"What he was saying was not true," Spanberger said. "He just didn't understand it." That, along with alarm about Trump and votes by House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, spurred her to jump into the congressional race.

 

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Wow, GA Gov poll has Dem Stacy Abrams 2 points down on both potential GOP candidates, and undecideds still pretty high.

 

1) If the November election for Georgia governor were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were Republican Casey Cagle and Democrat Stacey Abrams, who would you vote for?

  • Casey Cagle 45%
  • Stacey Abrams 43%
  • Undecided 12%

2) If the November election for Georgia governor were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams, who would you vote for?

  • Brian Kemp 46%
  • Stacey Abrams 44%
  • Undecided 10%
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1 minute ago, SaysWho? said:

 

I don't think there are enough progressives in that district to get whatever your ideal candidate is over the finish line.

On most issues, she's fairly progressive.

 

The thing people don't realize is that even though it's somewhat of a suburban district, it has a lot of rural areas to cover, and the truely suburban parts of the district are the wealthy white Western portions of Henrico and Chesterfield counties, maybe some of the furthest reaches of NoVA are included in Spotsylvania county. Some of Goochland and Powhatan are suburban, but still quite conservative. It will be a tough nut to crack.

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6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

On most issues, she's fairly progressive.

 

The thing people don't realize is that even though it's somewhat of a suburban district, it has a lot of rural areas to cover, and the truely suburban parts of the district are the wealthy white Western portions of Henrico and Chesterfield counties, maybe some of the furthest reaches of NoVA are included in Spotsylvania county. Some of Goochland and Powhatan are suburban, but still quite conservative. It will be a tough nut to crack.

 

If she can crack it and hold onto it in 2020, that would work well as a Democratic governor will have a say on the census.

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11 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

He's right though.  Socialists are pansies.  Socialist = man card revoked. 

 

What about democratic republic capitalism without the crony part of the capitalism? Crony capitalism/hypercapitalsim is the problem. I think socialist bents with regard to public policy would only help, and would at least be worth trying out, separately. 

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8 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I doubt it. But between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia is Alabama, so maybe. Obama did take the state in 2008 and 2012, I believe. 

I hope not, but I know a lot of people from PA and outside of the cities they are still pretty excited about the dude. 

 

P.S. On a completely unrelated note, I don't miss about 98% of my former PA relations. 

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4 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

I hope not, but I know a lot of people from PA and outside of the cities they are still pretty excited about the dude. 

 

P.S. On a completely unrelated note, I don't miss about 98% of my former PA relations. 

 

I went to college in central PA, deep red state country and while some are pretty bad, there are a lot of nice people out there too. I mean, we'll see. In all special elections between Trump and now PA has gone increasingly blue so . . . 

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1 minute ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I went to college in central PA, deep red state country and while some are pretty bad, there are a lot of nice people out there too. I mean, we'll see. In all special elections between Trump and now PA has gone increasingly blue so . . . 

Poconos for me, but I have relations in Pitts, Altoona, Scranton, Stroudsburg, and water gap areas. I've seen enough wood paneling clad bars to last a life time! :sick:

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2 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Poconos for me, but I have relations in Pitts, Altoona, Scranton, Stroudsburg, and water gap areas. I've seen enough wood paneling clad bars to last a life time! :sick:

That's definitely red PA state country for sure. I went to Bucknell in Lewisburg, known people in Harrisburg, State College, Williamsport, Reading, Allentown, Pittsburgh, some others. So I'm with you. I'm from Philadelphia though and currently live there (thank God). Let's hope it goes blue? :p 

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17 minutes ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

I don’t have any useless polls numbers for you, but it’s hard to read this article and not conclude that Trump will being having a big party on November 3, 2020.

 

 

 

:facepalm:

 

I mean, for fuck's sake, they want to fight the progressive left harder than Trump. Where is any of this verve elsewhere? Democrats: where they'd rather shotgun themselves in the face than do anything, but to spite no one. 

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