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2016 Postmortem

groundloop

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2. Just like voters bought that Compassionate Conservative bullshit

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 10:17 AM

Feb 2015

It's from the exact same playbook, and if Democrats don't start getting all over media refuting these lies people will start to believe it. No matter who the GOPers nominate, the campaign for 2016 has already started and this nonsense is their main talking point.

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Republicans now care about the poor and disenfranchised. [View all] tecelote Feb 2015 OP

Unfortunately jaxind Feb 2015 #1

Just like voters bought that Compassionate Conservative bullshit groundloop Feb 2015 #2

just keep it simple icarusxat Feb 2015 #7

I believe those are symptoms of what is called "outreach" Thor_MN Feb 2015 #3

Why do we allow our country to maintain an elections system that is based wholly on bribery? Dustlawyer Feb 2015 #4

Money and corruption. We're in it so deep now, I can't see a way out.. mountain grammy Feb 2015 #6

Since the Dems are virtually silent on poverty, people will believe the Rs bread_and_roses Feb 2015 #5

Whoa, this ought'a be interesting ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #8

Warren is the best of what's out there, but that's not saying much bread_and_roses Feb 2015 #9

I get that ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #10

No doubt.... (n/t) bread_and_roses Feb 2015 #11

They (say) they care about the poor and disenfranchised Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2015 #12

^^^ This ^^^ libdem4life Feb 2015 #13

A lot of this is the fault of Democrats ZX86 Feb 2015 #14

If the Republicans care about the poor and disenfranchised davidpdx Feb 2015 #15

for some reason though, the Democrats don't know how to frame and use simple talking points to a kennedy Feb 2015 #16

Let me make this clear. SmittynMo Feb 2015 #17