Reply #44: AMEN, AMEN, AMEN! I've been thinking that for a few

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months now. The Democrats treated him like shit when he did the best job for the Dems that anyone has done for decades. Dean gets us, the base, and he gets the American voting public. I wish these fools would take their heads out of their asses and start listening to us and certainly to people like Dean! Primary voting results, around here at least, showed absolutely that Dean's finesse could create more sea change in the country. They've gotten this Republican-like attitude -- they think they know what the (Democratic) country wants and what we'll support. They are so fucking wrong!

(PS We aren't totally screwed up here....yet. At least more Dems than Reps voted in the primary. Turnout was pathetically low, but at least more Dems showed up at the polls in Buncombe County....Asheville, NC etc.) And Shuler lost in Buncombe Co. (yeah!) he just won because outlying, more conservative areas voted for him. His opponent was a newcomer (Aixa WIlson) who'd never run for office before -- he still took 40% of the vote for the whole area. Not bad and a big message to Shuler. I frankly think Wilson ran a piss poor campaign (though not that piss poor if he did so well) and his positions on virtually every issue were poorly defined (too vague) -- he had some ideas thrown in that made me VERY uncomfortable. He was called more liberal than Shuler, but when I read his (vague) policy stances carefully, I wasn't all that convinced. And despite corresponding with him a couple of times, I never had a good grasp of his policies.

I agree with David Wiegel (WaPo): "...Rep. Health Shuler and Rep. Larry Kissell both watched unknown opponents rack up nearly 40 percent of the vote. Shuler's opponent, Aixa Wilson, has one of the less comprehensible policy stances I've seen." Despite all of this, he beat Shuler in my county and came very close in the all-around vote.

(Tangent over.)

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