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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 06:44 AM
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5. You're right, most will be reelected. The general public votes, it part, for
'the name you know', and the incumbents know that.

Then too, there is this. Many people, and I've read it here too, say such things as "Well, MY senator/representative isn't one of them. She (or he) is one of the good ones."

The sad truth is, they are ALL like that.
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  - They don't care. They're counting on our collective amnesia for 2012.  no_hypocrisy   Aug-05-11 06:39 AM   #4 
  - You're right, most will be reelected. The general public votes, it part, for  Obamanaut   Aug-05-11 06:44 AM   #5 
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