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AFD won another Direktmandat in Görlitz with 32.4%

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In 2004, I vaguely remember hearing my parents talk about it/overhearing stuff on the news. I knew that the candidates were named Bush and Kerry. I figured Bush won because after a while, people stopped talking about the other guy.

In 2008, I remember hearing early on that someone named Hillary Clinton was a frontrunner in her party; I was surprised to hear some time later that she was no longer in the race, since people had been so confident about her winning. A while later still, I heard the names of who was actually running, and on Election Day, I remember observing that we were either getting the first black president or the first female vice president, and thinking that was interesting.

In 2012, I was old enough to follow the news on my own. I remember hearing about the Republican primaries, and a period through which it seemed like all of the candidates were roller-coastering up and down in the polls. I payed somewhat close attention to the fall campaign.

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Also could you imagine Margaret Thatcher acting like this? I can't.

Neither can I, because Thatcher was a pretty explicit anti-feminist. 

So is Clinton.

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DON SIEGELMAN

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DeWit and Brnovich are on opposite ends of the scale here. DeWit is the only pol in Arizona I could see with a chance of beating Ward, but Sinema would walk right through him just the same as all the other hard-righties in the state. Brnovich, on the other hand, is a vastly better, more widely-appealing GE candidate (he made headlines not long ago for suing the Arizona Board of Regents for hiking tuitions for no good reason), but there's not a chance in hell he makes it through Ward's Great Wall of Trumpists, especially if McSally runs and splits the vote of relative sanity.

There's another issue here, too. While Brnovich would probably do a lot to shave away Sinema's base of moderates and independents, Kamala has it right: Ward's ungodly coalition of Trumpists, Tea Partiers, and doomsday prep types are all exactly the sort of voters who would completely sit out the general election if their candidate were to lose the primary.

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Black voters are overwhelmingly progressive on economic issues based on the polling data. Why do you think that a full-fledged economically conservative (even moreso than now) party would do a better job appealing to blacks?  Yes, Trump has enflamed tensions, but George W Bush, who ran a very inoffensive campaign, still only got about the same percentage of the black vote in 2000 as Trump got in 2016.

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Republicans are still trying to argue 'entitlements' like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are to blame for the deficit. This is very cynical and deliberate, as their 'starve the beast' strategy-cutting taxes for the rich so the deficit is so bad that they can sell spending cuts later on as a necessity (and it would be politically easier to sell spending cuts when the deficit is huge-even if they are responsible for that-than when the deficit is relatively low) and so in the long-term reduce both taxes and spending.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/16/mitch-mcconnell-federal-budget-deficit-tax-cuts

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Fuzzy is a hypocrite for asking me, A PALESTINIAN to condemn a religious leader long dead, but yet won't condemn Trump's comments about Jews today. I'm pretty sure he's ONLY asking me to because I'm Palestinian