WRONG! You have spent your time telling me stuff I knew, as if it was news. It was neither. @LemieuxLGM @bmaz @sbagen
By suggesting Dems should try to persuade voters. Yes. DOOM. Please. @LemieuxLGM @bmaz @sbagen
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If the success of democracy depends on persuasion, then it is vulnerable to the unprincipled con
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No. It is vulnerable to candidates who (under your ethic) have no interest in persuading or (Hillary's) don't effectively.
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Obama was not so vulnerable. Elizabeth Warren is not. Other Dems are not. Would they have beaten Trump? Who knows?
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In any case you're also vulnerable to a party that chooses to pick someone who BY HER OWN ADMISSION is not a good politician...
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Even ignoring the ongoing FBI investigation.
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So I'm not depending on charisma. I'm depending on (your model) Dem primary voters not picking someone who's unlikely to win.
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Or even more basically, Dem voters who don't demand Hillary to win their vote rather than to hand it off before the contest.
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She could have been a far stronger--possibly even adequately strong--candidate. But primary process short-circuited that.
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