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Hillary Clinton

Treant

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2. It depends

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 09:17 AM

Jun 2016

on the caliber of the candidate. For our side, probably a little. For the Republicans...I'm not sure anybody wants their name connected with Trump!

The bounce should be minor unless the candidate herself tells us that so-and-so was seriously considered, or asked but refused due to very good reasons. Just being on a supposed "list" probably won't do much for a given politician.

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