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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't the Republicans tell enough lies, or do enough smearing of Democrats for us
that we need to have more of it here on DU?
I have seen so many lies, half-truths, distortions and smears about the TPP, Hillary Clinton's Email, Biden's "touchy-feely", the Bowe Bergdahl exchange, President Obama's Middle East policy, the Medicare Doc fix...You name it...that I sometimes think I've accidentally come to some "Bizarro World" DU.
In the meantime, there's this:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2015/03/25/pennsylvania-special-election-loss-could-be-bad-sign-for-democrats-in-2016
Democrats in Free Fall
The latest example comes from Pennsylvania where on Tuesday 26-year-old Republican financial advisor Martina White posted an upset victory in a special election for a seat in the state House of Representatives. GOP voters in that district are outnumbered by Democrats 2-to-1, and Obama carried it in 2012 with 57 percent of the vote.
and from the mouth of Freakers:
To: Steely Tom
Well, I just hope they keep not voting. I know they only vote in POTUS election years but they really seem to be sitting on their collective a**es. No complaints here.
9 posted on ?3?/?26?/?2015? ?11?:?35?:?53? ?AM by RIghtwardHo
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Think I have to leave this place for a while, and find a place that "supports" Democratic candidates, and realizes that the real enemy is the Republicans who are taking a flamethrower to everything we hold dear.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I guess the Centrists can win without the left.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Candidates have to earn votes. If the candidate does not earn enough votes, that is the candidate's fault.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)You posted this, "I have seen so many lies, half-truths, distortions and smears about the TPP, Hillary Clinton's Email, Biden's "touchy-feely", the Bowe Bergdahl exchange, President Obama's Middle East policy, the Medicare Doc fix...You name it...that I sometimes think I've accidentally come to some "Bizarro World" DU." Can you give examples of your accusations? What "half truths" about the TPP?
If you are complaining about Democrats openly discussing issues, maybe you are on the wrong message board.