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Hillary Clinton

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts) Fri Jun 17, 2016, 05:36 PM Jun 2016

Historic Campaigns....

Does anyone feel like that word has been thrown around a lot lately? What do I know though? We've never had an elderly white man gather a specific constituency and then go on to lose the nomination by double digits. Nope. Never happened. In 2008, John McCain also ran a historic general election campaign...

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Historic Campaigns.... (Original Post) SaschaHM Jun 2016 OP

We hear that from his surrogates the two left that is FloridaBlues Jun 2016 #1

You can't really discuss the reasons why here. Walk away Jun 2016 #2

Good point. nt eastwestdem Jun 2016 #3

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)

1. We hear that from his surrogates the two left that is

Reply to SaschaHM (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:58 PM

Jun 2016

Repeating this nonsense
He got less votes than both presidential campaigns since 2008.
Pres Obama was historic and Hillary will be but not an elderly white guy who received 10 millon vows short
Am I missing some thing?

Walk away

(9,494 posts)

2. You can't really discuss the reasons why here.

Reply to FloridaBlues (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:28 PM

Jun 2016

You have to go to a web site that is open to free discussion.

eastwestdem

(1,220 posts)

3. Good point. nt

Reply to Walk away (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 11:41 PM

Jun 2016

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