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if that's accurate, one would expect some writer somewhere to already have compared it to the trump election, which the Narrative regards as voters just throwing a tantrum for no reason at all
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i could be wrong here, but my impression of the capuano/pressley race is that no one really had a problem with capuano - but they voted him out anyway because, gosh, ya know what, why not
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in reality, the primary and the general were both decided on the issues. trump won because both clinton and his republican competitors adopted unpopular positions on the issues - esp. immigration and trade
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(also, of course, clinton being the unpopular wife of a controversial former president, el jebe being the dopey mexaboo brother of an uncontroversially awful former president, and cruz having the charisma of a fungus-sprouting cum sock. but also the issues)
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what's more of an indictment of a voting population? voting for the one guy who didn't adopt disqualifyingly unpopular stances on important issues, or throwing out a guy no one had a problem with because hey look a squirrel
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somebody with more patience than me should look at the precinct-level data and see who it was that voted for pressley. (only released as badly put together pdf, of course.) city-level data sure makes it look like her demographic was rich swpls
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decent chance Pressley winds up (nominally) more in the middle than he was too
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didn't she admit she was very slightly to his right on the all-important* Issues * until both parties realized their positions were unpopular and deserved to be, and decided, no, they'd rather not change them despite that
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saw some Bernie types saying she had given mixed signals on stuff like banking regulations. Capuano misstepped for the district a bit by calling Kaepernick divisive + supporting a Blue Lives Matter bill
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well, you can't win both everett and swplstan
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