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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: As a black man [View all]azureblue
(2,129 posts)33. what they are doing
is launching these smear campaigns at all of the candidates. This is a test to see what works on all of them so the GOP and their Russian "help" will know what will work and what won't..... Look at the pattern --- You'll read a new smear and it will echo for a week or two then die out. then another one will start. Then another one, timed to keep the smears going. It's almost like you can set your clock by it. And as soon as one candidate starts to "pull ahead or get more limelight, The smear crew will turn on them to try to damp the momentum. It's freaking predicable as the
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Some left-leaning figures (in the party, media, and ordinary lay people) are doing their damned best
LincolnRossiter
Sep 2019
#4
It doesn't matter who the nominee is, the rebups will be tearing them down
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#13
Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#124
You're in good company!! Jim Clyburn and John Lewis have publicly pretty much the same thing!
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#8
Why is it so hard for people to grasp that Biden isn't just the most 'electable' but, rather, the...
Cha
Sep 2019
#133
Indeed! Biden is the only candidate that leaders of the free world begged to run
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#15
The Corn Pop story Biden tells is true, and the relevant details have been confirmed.
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
#11
Well stated. And yes the AA voters are very savvy. They know a leader when they see one
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#17
Its always amazed me how people get away with denigrating an entire race & never get called on it
oldsoftie
Sep 2019
#40
Well said. It's unfortunate that a handful of DU'ers are doing their best to amplify the
emulatorloo
Sep 2019
#36
A larger "chunk" of people period, support Biden- black, white and a fair number of Latinos
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#52
Oh, please. There's no way you can reasonably infer that from what I've written
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#61
SC is the bellwether for the AA voter -the Ntl polls reflect the polls in SC
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#78
except that almost every critic of Biden's statements has stressed they don't believe he's a racist
bigtree
Sep 2019
#46
So you're not putting them on ignore? Why would you care if they stalked you if
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#120
"Biden's a racist" may be unspoken here, but there's been daily insinuation and innuendo from
emulatorloo
Sep 2019
#65
I'm AA & I'm right there with you. We obviously didn't learn a lot from 2016, when some people....
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2019
#116
Biden's Electability Advantage Will Be Hard to Shake Among Risk-Averse Democrats
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#130