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tgards79

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Sun Jan 21, 2018, 10:45 AM Jan 2018

BTRTN: On the Women's March: You May Say I'm a Dreamer, But I'm Not the Only One

Notes from the Women's March in NYC:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/01/btrtn-on-womens-march-you-may-say-im.html

"My overwhelming takeaway was that this massive crowd of marchers was a political machine putting itself through its paces in readiness for a war this November. The shot has been fired across the bow in this past year, in national elections from Virginia and New Jersey to Alabama; a number of Congressional special elections where Democrats challenged mightily in races won by the GOP in 2016 by 20+ points; in state legislature races in Virginia and Washington; and in local races like the one for County Executive in my home of Westchester County, New York, in which the GOP incumbent, who won by +8 in 2013, was crushed by +17 by his Democratic challenger in 2017, the victim of a steamroller driven by members of our local Indivisible organization..."

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BTRTN: On the Women's March: You May Say I'm a Dreamer, But I'm Not the Only One (Original Post) tgards79 Jan 2018 OP
That was on one side of my sign yesterday BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #1
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