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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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