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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:13 AM Original message |
The base is leaving the Democrats |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. Since when has the Democratic "base" been "Independent voters"? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I think you missed entirely the reason for the post. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well, we've been told that we have |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yep, I would like to know the answer to that myself. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #5 |
32. the "socialist" charge is only attractive to teabag Limbaugh listeners |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Nope. If the Democrats lose, it's because of the economy or the |
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metapunditedgy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. That's the new talking point. The left refuses to be scapegoated, so we need somebody else |
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metapunditedgy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
33. We just need a narrative to sell to the corporate investors. This was part of the plan. |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. Support of the President by key elements of the Democratic Base remains unchanged |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:28 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Good to know, then people can STFU about the liberals and lefty fringe and professional leftists |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. I don't think it is purely a left or right issue |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. That's what we've always said |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
7. Democrats are not socialists - |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I am using RW terminology. As far as RWers are concerned |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
9. I don't think any Democrat could vote for a republican |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I agree. But what about those indies? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. Many here are voting for Crist who is a Republican Reject |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. generalize much? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. No, there are people like you. But a good many who voted for Obama |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. We agree that Dems aren't socialist... however |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The tea partiers are a wing of the Republican Party and have always been. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Agreed... but it's only the teabaggers and the very, very uninformed who see Obama as socialist |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:07 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. There's a hell of a lot of uniformed out there! LOL |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. Yep! |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. This debate will be interesting AFTER the election... |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:02 AM Response to Original message |
18. independent voters are not our base.. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:04 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I agree, but do we need them to win. I was being facetious. And how do we |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Bernie thinks we go left, the DLC says go right |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:06 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Do we need Independent voters to win? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
23. For the upcoming Nov. vote, let's have a good long |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
25. Only about 4% of Independents are truly independent, and independents are not the base. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
27. Arianna, is that you? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. No, it's David Sirota. |
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Just One Woman (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
29. wrong wrong wrong |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
34. No, they aren't. Republican enthusiasm is high. Democratic enthusiasm is about average. |
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