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Old 11-14-2016, 08:06 PM
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Old 11-15-2016, 06:48 AM
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Say, who benefits if most voters are all bitterly divided and mad at each other?
Dems have been using that recipe for years. Been pretty successful with it. Sounds like they're going to continue with it as well, if the post election rhetoric is any indication.
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Old 11-15-2016, 08:04 AM
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Say, who benefits if most voters are all bitterly divided and mad at each other?
Each mad voter because people like being angry.
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Old 11-15-2016, 09:08 AM
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well no, just the deplorables and malcontents. They're alwasy looking for reasons to make things miserable for everyone.

I just call them republicans.
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Old 11-15-2016, 09:37 AM
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Actually, I was thinking of the fellows the voters AREN'T looking at, while they are all busy being mad at each other.
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Old 11-15-2016, 09:42 AM
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Dems have been using that recipe for years. Been pretty successful with it. Sounds like they're going to continue with it as well, if the post election rhetoric is any indication.
And the Republican party is a big inclusive tent in the Maricopa county sun.


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Old 11-15-2016, 09:52 AM
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Actually, I was thinking of the fellows the voters AREN'T looking at, while they are all busy being mad at each other.
I went with the less obvious underlying cause answer.
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Old 11-15-2016, 10:30 AM
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I went with the less obvious underlying cause answer.
Is that the underlying cause? Or the underlying vulnerability available for the manipulators?
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Old 11-15-2016, 10:39 AM
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Is that the underlying cause? Or the underlying vulnerability available for the manipulators?
Yes it is and the underlying cause/vulnerability is used by Democrats and Republicans alike.
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Old 11-15-2016, 10:46 AM
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A quantitative partisan difference noonetheless exists, I would say. But I'm pointing at an overarching goal sort-of 'above and beyond' partisan office-seeking.
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