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Patrick Caddell, Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68 (Conservative Democrat)
NY Times ^
| 02-16-2019
| Sam Roberts
Posted on 02/17/2019 7:53:36 PM PST by NRx
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He was the man who broke the news to Jimmy Carter that he was going to lose the 1980 election, badly. Cadell was a lifelong Democrat, but he became increasingly conservative over time. In 2016 he was quietly advising Robert Mercer who was a deep pocket supporter of Trump. He was loathed by the left wing establishment in the Democratic Party. And Cadell fully reciprocated that loathing as one of the last champions of the old Democratic Party, a blue collar lunch pail party for the average working man. He had no patience for all of the identity politics and idiocy that has infested it today.
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posted on
02/17/2019 7:53:36 PM PST
by
NRx
To: NRx
RIP
I enjoyed his commentary.
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posted on
02/17/2019 7:55:40 PM PST
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: Jane Austen
RIP, tell Zell up there with you we said Hi.
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posted on
02/17/2019 7:58:02 PM PST
by
txhurl
(whoa)
To: Jane Austen
I did too. He always seemed level-headed and honest. RIP
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:00:14 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: NRx
To: NRx
One of the few decent democrats.
Not too many left after him.
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:02:25 PM PST
by
adorno
To: NRx
Conservative Democrat That's a Socialist who is not a Jihadist (yet).
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:03:08 PM PST
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: NRx
RIP
Always enjoyed his commentary.
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:04:48 PM PST
by
Track9
(Conservatives like underdogs, progressive like victims.)
To: adorno
An intellectually honest liberal. They are truly dying off.
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:05:13 PM PST
by
visionary
To: NRx
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:07:07 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: NRx
good man. i hope and pray he made it to Heaven with my dad and his blue-collar, conservative democrat brothers. i think God granted him a measure of grace, allowing him to support and see God’s election of Trump as a partial atonement for carter’s great failure to working class democrats.
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:11:31 PM PST
by
dadfly
To: dadfly
A conservative Democrat is like a moderate in Iran.
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:13:34 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: NRx
Died too soon of a stroke, I understand. RIP Pat!
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posted on
02/17/2019 8:19:05 PM PST
by
entropy12
(Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
To: NRx
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posted on
02/17/2019 9:19:45 PM PST
by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
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posted on
02/17/2019 9:22:43 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: NRx
There is another Democrat pollster/ commentator I still like.
He was often seen on Fox when I used to watch it.
Can’t recall his first name, but last name is Schoen.
Seems like a very reasonable chap.
There are probably younger versions of him now, active in the other parties, but they keep their true sentiments quiet.
Then, you have someone who goes the other way.
Someone like S.E. Cupp. I used to think of her as conservative at one time. Not so much anymore.
She’s been palling around with her new Blue friends.
To: DIRTYSECRET
have no idea what you could possibly mean. most of my family wouldn’t have known iran existed until carter failed miserably there. it started the process of making many of us Reagan democrats.
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posted on
02/17/2019 9:54:44 PM PST
by
dadfly
To: NRx
oh I am sorry to hear of this news.
whenever he was on Hannity, I listened intently as I thought him to be pretty level headed and honest. One of those, “the party left me” type of people. I respected and took his viewpoints into deep consideration.
RIP sir.
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posted on
02/17/2019 10:23:34 PM PST
by
Finatic
(Sometimes I think it would be nice to just get it on and get it over with. Once and for all.)
To: txhurl
Pat Caddell and Zell Miller.... the last honest Dem’s.
R.I.P.
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posted on
02/17/2019 10:30:04 PM PST
by
acapesket
(all happy now?)
To: Jane Austen
A great one. Terrific fellow. Rest in peace, sir.
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posted on
02/17/2019 10:59:24 PM PST
by
Luke21
(Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work work.)
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