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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:22 PM

drray23 (6,208 posts)

tune in on rachel. incredible stories of women who ran and won

Listening to it will give you goose bumps. Out of 16 seats we flipped, 11 are women. Rachel showed the stories of two of them who ran and won despite incredible personal challenges. One lost her brother a couple days after she had declared, the other found out she was pregnant with twins. 3 weeks after announcing for primary. She kept going, had her two babies prematurate (23 weeks) and every evening she would be at the hospital while campaigning during the day.

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tune in on rachel. incredible stories of women who ran and won (Original post)	drray23	Nov 2017	OP
K&R	HipChick	Nov 2017	#1
I hope this lasts until next Nov and after.	wasupaloopa	Nov 2017	#3
And the groups that Hillary AND Bernie started to get liberals to run for seats	mucifer	Nov 2017	#2
exactly. she showed the pics side by side with the ousted repubd.	drray23	Nov 2017	#4
Old white men	Bradshaw3	Nov 2017	#8
That opening was very inspiring.	demmiblue	Nov 2017	#5
forgot to mention another very important point she made.	drray23	Nov 2017	#6
This	lamp_shade	Nov 2017	#16
wonderful stories	bdamomma	Nov 2017	#7
Thats what I keep saying. Women are	rainy	Nov 2017	#12
I found it incredibly moving	RandomAccess	Nov 2017	#9
Kick and recommend. Beautiful stories.	bronxiteforever	Nov 2017	#10
It has been wonderful to watch.	SandyZ	Nov 2017	#11
She showed photos of the candidates for House of Delegates in VA	NastyRiffraff	Nov 2017	#13
Can't wait to watch the replay in less than 30 minutes! n/t	Upthevibe	Nov 2017	#14
A thing of beauty. It's so right.	Corvo Bianco	Nov 2017	#15

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:22 PM

HipChick (25,278 posts)

1. K&R

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:26 PM

wasupaloopa (4,516 posts)

3. I hope this lasts until next Nov and after.

I hope we can undo the damage the Repubs are doing

If we ignore the Debbie downers here and on MSM and get out the 2018 vote we can win big

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:24 PM

mucifer (20,607 posts)

2. And the groups that Hillary AND Bernie started to get liberals to run for seats

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:26 PM

drray23 (6,208 posts)

4. exactly. she showed the pics side by side with the ousted repubd.

old men versus young people. 11 are women, the 5 dem mens are young. One of them, a young redhead guy looks like he is 20..

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:32 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,707 posts)

8. Old white men

I loved the first graphic where it was all old white guys (like me) on the repub pic graphic and all women save one guy for the Dems. Like the OP said, the couple of profiles they did were touching and showed they are not only good Democrats but also just good people. I loved the Gooditis story but my favorite was the young black woman who ran (first time ever)because her delegate mocked the Women's March with a sexist post, then beat his sorry old ass.

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:27 PM

demmiblue (32,613 posts)

5. That opening was very inspiring.

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:28 PM

drray23 (6,208 posts)

6. forgot to mention another very important point she made.

Last time we ran 29 candidates out of 100 seats in virginia. This time we ran 90 . The lesson is that we should contest every zip code no matter how gerrymanded it is.

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Thu Nov 9, 2017, 03:10 AM

lamp_shade (14,017 posts)

16. This

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:29 PM

bdamomma (61,280 posts)

7. wonderful stories

hmmmm..........women are rising UP!!!!!!

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:45 PM

rainy (5,776 posts)

12. Thats what I keep saying. Women are

on the move, organizing and finding candidates, and they are flying under the radar😀

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:41 PM

RandomAccess (5,210 posts)

9. I found it incredibly moving

and thrilling.

And hope-inspiring.

and then there's this --

Link to tweet

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:41 PM

bronxiteforever (7,782 posts)

10. Kick and recommend. Beautiful stories.

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:43 PM

SandyZ (186 posts)

11. It has been wonderful to watch.

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 11:07 PM

NastyRiffraff (12,448 posts)

13. She showed photos of the candidates for House of Delegates in VA

And I just blurted out loud "Holy shit!" All Republicans were men; MOST Democrats were women. I knew a lot of women won, but we've never seen ANYTHING like this, ever!

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 11:35 PM

Upthevibe (5,161 posts)

14. Can't wait to watch the replay in less than 30 minutes! n/t

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Thu Nov 9, 2017, 12:17 AM

Corvo Bianco (1,148 posts)

15. A thing of beauty. It's so right.

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