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Here's the hidden part: they

Doctor Cleveland — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:28:54 +0000

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Here's the hidden part: they've nationalized the primaries to the point that they've canceled a major party fundraiser in a swing state.

That money would have gone to the ground game in Iowa. And Super-PAC mega-donors don't generally care about building the ground game on the precinct level.

While something around $500

Elusive Trope — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:14:10 +0000

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While something around $500,000 for the party is nothing to sneeze at, it just takes about 16 wealthy individuals and multicandidate PACs to equal that amount. And then they can avoid people like Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann stealing the spotlight for awhile.

Yeah, goodbye old straw poll-

Oxy Mora — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:49:15 +0000

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Yeah, goodbye old straw poll---hang on, have to kill a large red wasp---we hardly knew ye.

My favorite was Perry strutting around and saying how the Texans would rough up old Ben Bernanke if he ever showed his face in the lone star state.