To All: Should Dan Lipinski be Primaried?

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I will knock doors for Marie Newman, yes.

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so you don't like "mavericks," you just like centrists.

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Some people on this forum are hilariously deluded. Obviously Lipinski has a particular appeal in his district given the demographics of his constituents, but this is a district Clinton won by 15% (by an even larger margin than Obama in 2012, too!); literally any Democrat nominated would have no trouble holding this district in a general election.

the fact that it's a seat few if any Dems would have trouble losing is irrelevant (mostly). He's a responsitive and effective member of Congress. If you don't like him, then feel free to attempt to primary him - but don't get your hopes up. His constituents know that he fights for them - and that's why he's won primary and primary.

it's very relevant. terrible representatives like lipinski—and any representative who voted against the ACA is terrible, full stop—may be grudgingly tolerated in districts where literally no one else could be elected. this is clearly not one of those districts, and so there's no reason not to upgrade.

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Thank god IL 3rd is made up of decent humans with good bearings and common sense, otherwise they would be deceived into voting for candidates who literally would only have backing from out of state nancy pelosi esq interest groups. Dan cares about the people, people like SJoyce are just looking to flip a seat, and ignore it afterwards.

i live in chicago

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Thank god IL 3rd is made up of decent humans with good bearings and common sense, otherwise they would be deceived into voting for candidates who literally would only have backing from out of state nancy pelosi esq interest groups. Dan cares about the people, people like SJoyce are just looking to flip a seat, and ignore it afterwards.

i live in chicago

Ok, I'll concede that, but you are out of district.

by roughly ten minutes, yes, i am an out of district agitator coming in across the dan ryan

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that is because this forum is almost entirely men. easy to "compromise" on rights if they're not your own