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NYC_SKP

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9. Indeed. Beyond holding the party together, there's the matter of holding the country together.
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 10:55 AM
Nov 2014

I'm of the mind that the greatest untapped potential lay with that same number of people who have been most disenfranchised by developments over the past 40 odd years.

The single mom in Kentucky and X gen bike courier in Berkeley have more in common with one another than either do with anyone running for the office.

Decreasing wealth, fewer job opportunities, a dismal education system, little to no security for their future, the mom might buy into the Fox News propaganda and the courier might just tune it all out, but they and millions of others would respond to the right message from the right person.

The little known secret, one that the media will never, ever, divulge, is that most of Americans are, at heart, old school Democrats at heart if this is measured by the principles they hold absent the conditioning they experience through the media.

Show me a candidate that can speak to THAT center, and I'll show you the next president of the United States.

Let's find that person and lift them up!

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