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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The cracks that divide us must be healed [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)38. Yep. Saw that play out. Ugly.
It wasn't Republicans that threw the race into chaos. We saw a ferocious effort from know-nothing conservative Dems to wipe out progressives across the board.
I think the calculation was that things had improved enough under Obama that "Republican- lite," the flavor Florida big-dog donors prefer, would be good enough.
It wasn't.
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I preferred Grayson, but the domestic violence thing did him in as much as anything.
Ken Burch
Nov 2016
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