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Bernie Sanders

Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Fri Sep 11, 2015, 03:53 PM Sep 2015

Either elected officials respond to the needs of an involved electorate, or don't stay elected...

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Either elected officials respond to the needs of an involved electorate, or don't stay elected... (Original Post) Playinghardball Sep 2015 OP

Unfortunately, they do stay elected Warpy Sep 2015 #1

Warpy

(111,267 posts)

1. Unfortunately, they do stay elected

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Fri Sep 11, 2015, 04:00 PM

Sep 2015

They'll put up with their own backstabbing SOB, it's your backstabbing SOB that has to go.

Incumbents have gotten rich on this proposition since the beginning of the Republic.

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