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pnwmom

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6. He's the most electable if a Dem can win the primary

Reply to Small-Axe (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 19, 2018, 06:31 AM

Nov 2018

without the votes of millions of older women who will never forget how he failed us in the Anita Hill hearing, because of a trait that endures to this day: wanting to be liked.

He should have been her champion, but instead he questioned her as if he was one of the prosecutors. And he shut the hearings down without letting her corroborating witnesses testify. Why? Because he had promised the R's on the committee he'd finish on a certain date. His promise to them was more important than justice for Anita Hill -- and for the Supreme Court.

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Biden would be insulated from any of his (slight) weaknesses by the Orange Blob... Small-Axe Nov 2018 #5

He's the most electable if a Dem can win the primary pnwmom Nov 2018 #6

He also will be the weakest amongst the youth vote of the main Celerity Nov 2018 #7

I hadn't heard that about Biden being in favor of making those debts pnwmom Nov 2018 #8

its been the law for years now, he led the charge from the Democratic side Celerity Nov 2018 #9

He can easily win the primary IMO Small-Axe Nov 2018 #10

Millions of women won't choose him, so I doubt that it would be an easy win. pnwmom Nov 2018 #11