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In reply to the discussion: Update: "Get A Life You Worthless Bum" [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)34. Thanks for the catch. I edited my prior post.
However, I do not believe the turn out in 2010 was all that different than 2006. Certainly it was lower than 2008, but that is always the case, and is an invalid comparison.
I don't want to speak for the OP, but I thought the historical point the OP was making was about midterm elections. Of course, I could always be wrong, but that was my take.
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Mar 2014
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Well we'd better win the so-called independents because that's how we lost 2010.
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Mar 2014
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And the same lessons apply in this midterm as 2010. We got our asses handed to us by the
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