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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Nay

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7. Same problem in VA -- no help for progressive Dems who challenge anyone, Dem or Pub.

Reply to dreamnightwind (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 11:37 AM

Jun 2015

The guy who challenged Cantor got 41% of the vote without ANY money or help from national Dems. Then, when Cantor was primaried by a complete dumbass teapartier, the national Dems didn't even help the Dem challenger then -- no money, nothing. Even though it would have been easy to help the progressive Dem challenger because the teapartier was a complete, and I mean complete, idiot. His idiocy even caused concern among the Pubs here. WHY was no help given? Cuz they don't care.

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