2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The rest of the story about Washington Post poll. [View all]Betty Karlson
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which is wholly in line with the terms of DU. There is no obligation to precede every single utterance on the forum by some loyalty pledge: "I vote straight ticket D". Edit: but if you like the idea, you could put such a pledge in your sig-line. Who knows - you could be a trend-setter.
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Anything you were trying to say with that reply of yours is your business, of course. Or maybe you were just saying it. My post was concerned with what happens down-ticket. Fair enough?