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Panich52

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Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:24 AM Mar 2015

Bloomberg: At SXSW, Rand Paul makes play for young voters and 'the leave me alone coalition'

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Bloomberg: At SXSW, Rand Paul makes play for young voters and 'the leave me alone coalition'
By David Knowles

While many of his rivals spent the weekend scouting for support in the traditional electoral hunting grounds of New Hampshire, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul headed south by southwest, instead.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-15/at-sxsw-rand-paul-makes-play-for-young-voters-and-the-leave-me-alone-coalition-

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Bloomberg: At SXSW, Rand Paul makes play for young voters and 'the leave me alone coalition' (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP
Take a shot every time he says "Snowden" in a speech Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #1
How to tell that SXSW has jumped the shark. FSogol Mar 2015 #2
Only a few young WHITE voters Yonx Mar 2015 #3
All the more reason why our party shouldnt cede things like marijuana legalization to the Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #4

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. Take a shot every time he says "Snowden" in a speech
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:59 PM
Mar 2015

Hope the fanbois at SXSW don't realize Paul is the one who voted against NSA reform...

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. All the more reason why our party shouldnt cede things like marijuana legalization to the
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:58 PM
Mar 2015

Libertarian wing of the GOP.

Denying that it is a problem wont make it go away. Unfortunately a good chunk of our "leadership" seems more interested in going the debbie wasserman-schultz route of appealing to the "worried morality mom" demographic, instead of arguing for an end to arrests of pot smoking cancer patients, etc

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