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I agree, gun laws need to strengthened or these mass shootings and school shootings will just keep happening.

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I'm not sure I agree with this take, but it's an interesting and well thought out theory nonetheless:

Read the last two lines for the short answer. But to elaborate:

He’d have thrown every ounce of energy he had into that race, and he showed during the primary that he understood retail politics and the anti-establishment current. He also was more charismatic (and similarly bufoonish) then his rivals. But the establishment feared, rationally so, that he was a doomed candidate and so McConnell asked Trump to basically kill his candidacy.

The thing was that it wasn’t necessarily doomed. First, his campaign never took off. He polled briefly near the two top candidates IIRC but never actually led. Second, the Republican base was lockstep in line with Trump and were far more strategically minded in the sense that many cast their votes for electable candidates over insurgent candidates in a number of races. In fact, insurgent candidates on the right for Congress have really only taken off when facing #NeverTrump incumbents. The obvious anomaly of course is Roy Moore, but if occasional ‘16 Trump critics like Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and Ted Cruz can curry favor with the base than it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Morrisey could. Lastly, at least from what my relatives in and from West Virginia have told me, is that Big Don’s name is mudd up there. I’d defer to POTUS, an actual West Virginian, should he comment here on this but I’d imagine that his unpopularity (to put it politely) is the same.

So let’s say that if you remove all of the reasons that I just listed and handwave a hypothetical Blakenship primary win. That would put Blakenship on the playing field against Manchin, who is the biggest camera whore in the Congress. The guy was very vulnerable in 2018 from what I’ve heard but Morrisey simply didn’t attract enough swing voters (think specifically Trump Democrats) or fire up the base enough to view the race as a major hotspot in the broader Senate battleground. Big Don, despite his insidious background and questionable morality, was talking about the issues that the people were thinking about.

Tl;dr: Blakenship was given a flirtation in spite of his history because he was the most obvious anti-establishment candidate, but his constant obsession with personality politics, repeated gaffes, and threats of being a “spoiler” made him toxic. And thank God. Like Roy Moore, he’s a garbage human and would quickly turn on Trump in order to advance his whole act.

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Díaz has no place in the Democratic Party of 2020, period.

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Funny:

The one that recently had a Democratic Senator named B. Nelson.

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The worst leader of any democracy. F-

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(my apologies morgankingsley)

Nobody deserves or earns anything with politics

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Broke: Gore was entitled to Nader's votes
Woke: Nader and Gore were entitled to their respective votes
Bespoke: Nader was entitled to Gore's votes

Really makes you think.

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Sevier County is located in Eastern Tennessee. It is the area's tourist hub and is home to the famous Dollywood amusement park. It's terain is very hilly. It's population is very white, and its politics are extremely Republican, to the point of never voting Democrat (it did vote for Teddy Roosevelt in 1912).

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