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Bellingham Bill
2014 Nov 14, 11:40am
which happened in and around the 70's with the creation of the campaign from the GOP to single out folks on social services.
GOP also got attached to the 30-40% of the country that are single-issue voters willing to vote against their economic interest if it means fewer babies are killed in the womb and/or minorities get less access to government programs and/or gun rights are expanded or at least aren't further infringed and/or organized Christianity's pride of place in our community is respected and protected by government.
This base made them competitive again, at least in off-cycle elections when the youth vote can't be arsed to vote.
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Seeing as how yesterday all of the tea party candidates got beaten soundly, when you add this to the movement's failure to stop Obamacare, I'd say that the billionaires and lobbys who started the tea party are going to see that this so-called "movement" is a waste of their money and so the plug will be pulled. Of course I'm sure they'll find some other weaselly way to get into congress, but as for now this latest experiment failed.
Never have I ever been happy "normal" Republicans won anything.
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