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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

TheKentuckian

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7. I don't much care what his parents did. I perceive him as a water carrier for the establishment,

Reply to KoKo (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2015, 01:10 AM

Mar 2015

why is that impression wrong?

I also find his instant golden child of leadership status, he was made an insider quickly coming from being a state legislator curious. Just leapfroged a lot of seniority.

I don't have anything against the guy but I'm not seeing why he is a people's champion type rather than another insider's insider from an area where over playing the "centrist" hand may well consistently draw a primary whether he would translate to such alone or not.

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I don't much care what his parents did. I perceive him as a water carrier for the establishment, TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #7