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2016 Postmortem

Docreed2003

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4. Exactly...

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 01:28 AM

Jan 2017

And it didn't help that we learned after the election that some reps/senate candidates were begging the DNC for money and exposure and didn't receive it. Some of those, like Russ Fiengold, were canaries in the coal mine.

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