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2016 Postmortem

TheDormouse

(1,168 posts) Sun Mar 13, 2016, 07:38 PM Mar 2016

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Hillary has been pro-Patriot Act; Bernie has been anti-Patriot Act [View all]

In the Senate, Hillary voted for the original Patriot Act in 2001, and again for its reauthorization in 2005.

Bernie, serving in the House at the time, voted against it both times. He also voted against its extension in 2011, when he was in the Senate. (Hillary by that time was Secretary of State.)

Does knowing this affect how you feel about them as candidates for president?

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Hillary has been pro-Patriot Act; Bernie has been anti-Patriot Act [View all] TheDormouse Mar 2016 OP

There was nothing more UNpatriotic than the PATRIOT Act farleftlib Mar 2016 #1

+1 nt Xipe Totec Mar 2016 #6

Even were the votes reversed, that would not cancel out, for me, Hillary's negative or Bernie's djean111 Mar 2016 #2

One believes in Democracy a lot more than the other. Octafish Mar 2016 #3

Yes, it makes voting for her unconscinable JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #4

Yes it does noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #5

Pretty hard to hit Hillary for that vote ibegurpard Mar 2016 #7

Hillary is STILL for the Patriot Act--Bernie is STILL against it TheDormouse Mar 2016 #8

Hillary once admitted she was wrong on Patriot Act? TheDormouse Mar 2016 #9

No, I already knew Sanders was good. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #10

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