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So personal and I don't know how your are even aware I'm vertically challenged. I think I'm being watched.
I just don't jump into the fray very often to post / argue with people, which means I haven't even reached the 500 post milestone. BUT, I keep DU open on a tab and repeatedly refresh and read threads throughout the day. Since 2005. 
Much like Roz in Monsters Inc:
and he said those posts did not come from DU. What's one to think?
I have to post sugar and spice until I get my count up even though I have voted straight since 1968 and have been a Party Chairman. I just need to learn not to be critical of the party or candidates for a while. Not even going to tell a candidate they have a HUGE pimple on the tip of their nose. 
Not sure it was a secret as you suggest. It also doesn't surprise me that the wife of the administrator of a progressive board is working for a candidate with a progressive platform.
That is flat out awesome.
A lot of us are actually proud that one of our own has kinda hit the big time when it comes to supporting a DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate, considerng that this is DEMOCRATIC Underground which is dedicated up front and in the TOS to getting DEMOCRATIC candidates elected.
Why is this a problem for you, and a couple of others? 
Most people seem to imagine that everyone who disagrees with them, at some point, on some issue, is a "troll", and not just someone who disagrees. Same as it ever was.
As to the sort of rough and tumble to which new members are invariably subjected, here- yeah, it exists, but the fact of the matter is (as anyone who has been on MIRT can tell you) low-count posters are treated suspiciously as if they may be trolls because this place gets a LOT of trolls. It's about the only thing you can reliably count on.
Then take a major election, and multiply that number by twenty.
In my experience, the vast majority of bleating from new people about "why are you treating me like a troll when I'm just expressing my concern/pointing out that this Clinton scandal has legs/questioning whether James O'Keefe has a point" etc etc-- well, it comes not from horribly misjudged and mistreated future good would-be community members, but yes, from actual fucking trolls. And then invariably what they do is some version of "gee, whiz, since everyone here is so mean to me, maybe I don't want to be a Democrat after all -sniff sniff-"
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As for your removed section, I'm gonna address it anyway, since it's the elephant in the room and anyone can read it in the edits if they're curious enough, anyway. And I'll do that by saying: You cannot compare the primary period to the GE election period. The rules are different. Sort of how you can play football and soccer on the same basic field. The basic dimensions are the same but the games are very, very different.
There was shit said during the primaries about ALL the candidates- like Bernie Sanders, for instance- that in no fucking way would fly now. Nor should it.
We've moved on, we're unified, that's how this deal works.
DU is rough. Get a helmet, or find a mutual admiration support group. If you wander in here a week before the election, be prepared to meet some suspicion at first. C'est La Vie.
