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elleng

(130,895 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:38 PM Oct 2015

New Hampshire forum has candidates touting bipartisanship.

They came for the Bernie and Donald show. They left at least thinking about Martin and Lindsey.

“He was put in the category of, ‘This guy we’ll ignore,’” Richard Pennington of Peterborough, N.H., said of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. But after seeing him Monday at the No Labels “Problem Solver Convention,” Pennington, a Bernie Sanders voter, said he’d give O'Malley a second look.

“He doesn’t have any traction. But he’s an impressive guy,” he said. . .

O’Malley, who has assiduously courted the progressive left during his longshot bid for the Democratic nomination, seemed at ease highlighting what he said was his nonpartisan approach to governing.

"The nature of leadership has changed in the information age. The place for the leader to be now is in the center," O'Malley said.

"That's the way that I've always governed."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-candidates-bipartisan-20151012-story.html

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