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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: This has got to stop [View all]

Binkie The Clown

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8. The comment I heard over and over in the real world,...
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:53 PM
Jan 2017

...as opposed to here on DU, was "I don't like either one of them, but I guess I'll vote for Hillary."

That's how real-world people felt, and that lack of enthusiasm is what prompted 45% of registered voters to just skip out on voting.

What we needed, and didn't have, was real enthusiasm in the real world. I'm not talking about the enthusiasm we had here in the DU echo chamber, but real-world enthusiasm from ordinary people. Like the people who were showing up for Bernie's rallies.

But of course, the collective response here in the echo chamber seems to be:

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