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In reply to the discussion: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rockets Into Social Media Stardom [View all]cwydro
(51,308 posts)59. People seem to think there was some kind of massive turnout and landslide victory.
But nope.
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NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#191
"The Democratic party welcomes anyone who wants to work and volunteer and participate. "
progressoid
Jan 2019
#104
People seem to think there was some kind of massive turnout and landslide victory.
cwydro
Jan 2019
#59
Last I heard there are 435 members of the House, many in very important positions and....
George II
Jan 2019
#122
Turnout for the June primary was only 11.8%, she got 6.8% of the registered Democrats....
George II
Jan 2019
#75
Not until recently. I don't know of any other states that have separate primaries....
George II
Jan 2019
#126
Yep! Many of those that I know in New York were unaware of the two primaries....
George II
Jan 2019
#138
Sounds like she may have a better sense than some of her fans of the work she has to do to move up
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#128
Kim Kardashian and Ellen DeGeneres each have about 50x the number of followers
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#65
I'm 71 years old and have been politically active for 40+ years, just signed up 18 months ago.
George II
Jan 2019
#132
80% of all twitter users are outside the United States, more than 70% are outside her "generation".
George II
Jan 2019
#77
She's far behind Trump on that metric. Does that make him "the voice" of his generation? (nt)
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#194
If it were not for the fact that the attention paid to her and Bernie wasnt
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2019
#31
Claiming she must have had an original (albeit unidentified) idea in high school
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#111
You made the case that she has "original political ideas" because of her scholastic acheivements.
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#200
The thing that distinguishes them is that they don't shut up about the ideal. They continue
JCanete
Jan 2019
#142
Yes, but, but, she needs mentoring!! LOL, AOC should be doing the mentoring!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2019
#26
Mueller indictment: Russians engaged in operations...to support Sanders and Trump.
Hortensis
Jan 2019
#20
Yeah, personally I know what the agenda is and a unified party is not their agenda.
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2019
#32
Edmund Burke - you cannot develop a political theory and disrupt a society to test it.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2019
#33
Interesting how "Being hated by the RW and drawing their fire" was a disqualfier
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#19
It's fine to be a lightning rod whom the RW hates ... UNLESS you have any experience
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#40
She was criticized for quoting Alice Walker, not for supporting Ocasio-Cortez
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#116
why do you autmoatically assume its the same people posting. If you can actually make that
JCanete
Jan 2019
#78
wow....that's a really silly accusation. We must have a whole lot of Russians in
JCanete
Jan 2019
#76
She threw her support to Pelosi on green legislation before she was even sworn in.
Cuthbert Allgood
Jan 2019
#109
Yes, conservatives calling themselves Democrats who say Dems are corrupt and beholden to
betsuni
Jan 2019
#146
I know many people, Democrats, who live in and around the 14th District who are not inspired.
George II
Jan 2019
#130
What has social media performance got to do with House of Representatives
democratisphere
Jan 2019
#179