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2016 Postmortem

elleng

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1. I understand he was appealing to a certain (youth) demographic,

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 02:24 PM

Mar 2014

that was his intention, to get support for ACA, and yes, similar could work for elections, but a huge problem is the effectiveness of repug propaganda, paid for by all their $$$. An Informed Electorate is a bedrock of democracy, and we just don't have one.

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The President between two ferns - [View all] hedgehog Mar 2014 OP

I understand he was appealing to a certain (youth) demographic, elleng Mar 2014 #1

I'm looking at the difference in turn out when there isn't a Presidential election hedgehog Mar 2014 #2

We sure hope that we can, elleng Mar 2014 #4

Looks that way SmittynMo Mar 2014 #3