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Jimbo101

(776 posts) Thu Dec 15, 2016, 06:40 PM Dec 2016

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Lessons from the Tea Party

https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/15/lessons-tea-party/

We saw these activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress. We saw them organize locally and convince their own members of Congress to reject President Obama’s agenda. Their ideas were wrong, cruel, and tinged with racism – and they won…

If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Barack Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.

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Lessons from the Tea Party (Original Post) Jimbo101 Dec 2016 OP

The "Contract With America" is another good example. MarvinGardens Dec 2016 #1

MarvinGardens

(779 posts)

1. The "Contract With America" is another good example.

Reply to Jimbo101 (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 06:59 PM

Dec 2016

I think we only need about half as many seats to flip to take the House, versus what the R's got in 1994.

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