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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Newsflash: Southern and Western states are more populous and representative of the Democratic Party! [View all]w4rma
(31,700 posts)15. I'm not taking the advice of South Carolina Democrats. They haven't won a single statewide election.
South Carolina Democratic voters are political losers. They probably sabotage their best politicians for not being neoliberal enough.
They have elected exactly zero statewide Democrats. They have 6 Republicans in the U.S. House and Clyburn is the *only* Democratic Representative.
Their state legislature is either Super Majority or near-Super Majority Republican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_South_Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_South_Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Senate
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Newsflash: Southern and Western states are more populous and representative of the Democratic Party! [View all]
Liberal_Stalwart71
Feb 2016
OP
Please justify this (as yet) baseless and unsubstantiated assertion. Thanks!
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#3
That still wouldn't prove that he is personally afraid of them. So you have nothing. n/t
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#6
I'm not taking the advice of South Carolina Democrats. They haven't won a single statewide election.
w4rma
Feb 2016
#15
No that's not true about West Virginia or Oklahoma. There are statewide Democrats in both. (nt)
w4rma
Feb 2016
#18
You missed my point. The argument is that those states will vote Republican in the GENERAL!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Feb 2016
#20
People said the same about Barack Obama in 2008 when he was winning these same Red states.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Feb 2016
#25
Again, the same happened to Obama in 2008 when he was winning Red states in the primaries.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Feb 2016
#26