Ardent15
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:11 PM
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Great Lakes Senators rule |
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Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 02:12 PM by Ardent15
Russ Feingold Richard Durbin Barack Obama Paul Wellstone (RIP) Carl Levin Sherrod Brown
Anyone else notice their progressive and populist streaks? It seems to be a pattern among Senators from the Great Lakes region.
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:13 PM
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1. Well, not all of them, of course. |
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:15 PM
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2. Obviously not all of them |
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Wed Feb-11-09 03:25 PM
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10. well, for a business man |
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:17 PM
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3. Well...all I can say as a "Great Lakes" resident...is that we're very practical here! |
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Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 02:19 PM by samdogmom
We do have our nut cases (Tommy Thompson comes to mind!) Our states have liberals and conservatives just like the rest of the country. However...after living in the Midwest and the South...I'll take the Midwest any day!
P.S. Not to burst your balloon but Joe McCarthy was from Wisconsin. YIKES!
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:18 PM
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6. Those states seem to attract populist Democrats who are in touch with the working class |
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Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 02:22 PM by Ardent15
That's what I was getting at.
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:17 PM
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4. Obama's not (Wasn't) a Great Lakes senator..... |
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Illinois is a Great Lakes wannabe. :-)
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:17 PM
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5. Durbin and Obama are badasses |
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:22 PM
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7. It used to be considered midwest populism |
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Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 02:24 PM by dflprincess
New York is a Great Lakes state (it even has 2 Great Lakes) but I don't see it's senators mentioned.
And, I don't consider Amy Klobuchar (DFL-MN) all that progressive. I heard her dad, Jim (former newspaper columnist), give a couple speeches for her during her campaign in 2006 - he sounded like an old time Farmer Laborite. I fear we ran the wrong Klobuchar.
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:25 PM
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8. Schumer and Clinton aren't really from the Great Lakes Region |
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Schumer is from Brooklyn, which is more mid-Atlantic/New England, and Hillary...well she's a carpetbagger, to put it bluntly (though she is from Chicago, so I guess that counts).
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Wed Feb-11-09 08:45 PM
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11. At the time he was elected to the Senate Wellstone was living in Northfield, MN |
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and he was living in St. Paul at the time of his death. Lake Superior is no where near either site. I think Feingold is from Madison, WI and that would put him a ways from either Superior or Lake Michigan. If proximity to one of the lakes is what makes a "Great Lakes" senator, neither Wellstone or Feingold would qualify either.
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Wed Feb-11-09 10:20 PM
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15. It's not their proximity to the lakes |
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It's the fact that there states are in proximity to the lakes.
New York is the exception.
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Wed Feb-11-09 08:56 PM
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14. Sec. of State Clinton is no longer in the Senate |
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Gillibrand is from a bit farther upstate, near Albany, but still not near either lake.
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Wed Feb-11-09 08:54 PM
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13. "New York is a Great Lakes state (it even has 2 Great Lakes) but I don't see it's senators.... |
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....mentioned"
That's because neither are worthy of mention..... :P
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Wed Feb-11-09 02:58 PM
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9. Loves me some Russ! And don't forget the WI CongressCritter ... |
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Dave Obey, Champion of the Working Folk of America!!
:patriot: :applause:
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Wed Feb-11-09 08:53 PM
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as do all those you list. I've had the honor of meeting Levin many times, he's great. Knows his shit, fears no one.
Julie
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Wed Feb-11-09 11:05 PM
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17. Bayh and Lugar aren't terribly impressive |
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Wed Feb-11-09 11:53 PM
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18. Yeah, but neither is Indiana ;) |
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