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WashPost Columnist to 2020 Dems: Stop Answering Those ‘Raise Your Hands’ Questions!
Newsbusters ^ | July 16, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 07/16/2019 1:30:24 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Please stop raising your hands in unison to provide answers to questions that might destroy whatever chance you might have to win the 2020 presidential election.

That is the big worry of Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. And he is right. Answering affirmatively by raising your hand to the question of if you approve of giving health care to illegals or decriminalizing the unauthorized crossing of the border is pretty much a deal killer for the vast majority of American voters. Those raising their hands might get a warm, fuzzy feeling as well as the approval of the leftwing of the Democrats as well as the mainstream media but it is suicidal at the ballot box.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: democratcandidates; democrats; election; election2020; pjgladnick; radicals
Too late, E.J.. Those raised hands will inevitably be featured in Trump 2020 campaign commercials.
1 posted on 07/16/2019 1:30:24 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Yeah, we don’t want to know who is responsible for their position and who is not. Transperancy has bad karma


2 posted on 07/16/2019 1:32:54 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote, while it is still legal!)
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What a hypocrite. EJ is as leftist as they come. He just knows if the country finds out how far left they are they will lose. And he’s right.


3 posted on 07/16/2019 1:34:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Journalists AGAINST transparency. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


4 posted on 07/16/2019 1:36:16 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Notice Dionne didn't ask for the Democrat candidates to change their positions. He just wants them to not be so honest about their positions.

And he does that openly, without fear or embarrassment.

These people are sick.

5 posted on 07/16/2019 1:37:59 PM PDT by FreeReign
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They did the math at the WP.
They are loosing in the Midwest badly and they need a Stealth Candidate to turn it around.
Buttboy was going to be that until he went full on gay.

There is no Stealth Candidate right now.


6 posted on 07/16/2019 1:38:47 PM PDT by Zathras
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Journalists AGAINST transparency. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

'Zactly.

7 posted on 07/16/2019 1:39:24 PM PDT by FreeReign
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E.J. Dionne, "swamp columnist" aka Democrat coach!

8 posted on 07/16/2019 1:40:51 PM PDT by onyx
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Why dont reporters “help” conservative candidates


9 posted on 07/16/2019 1:43:45 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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Here’s a way for the 2020 Dems to satisfy everyone they care about. Whenever there is a “raise your hand” question they don’t want to answer, they should just take a knee.


10 posted on 07/16/2019 1:45:52 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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In other words:
11 posted on 07/16/2019 1:47:01 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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They should raise hands. Why wouldn’t they? If they are in favor of Medicare for all, Medicare for illegals, open borders, global warming issues etc , why wouldn’t they want to educate us voters? Isn’t that what campaigns are all about?


12 posted on 07/16/2019 1:52:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The leftie demand that conservatives virtue-signal in unison doesn’t seem so good to them the other way around.


13 posted on 07/16/2019 1:56:20 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Stop telling the people the truth about our asinine and country-busting plans! Too late.


14 posted on 07/16/2019 1:58:15 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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“Journalists AGAINST transparency.”

These people are NOT journalists but instead are activists and ‘change agents’.

Not to mention traitors.


15 posted on 07/16/2019 3:03:35 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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So CHILDISH! Raise your hands.....omg.


16 posted on 07/16/2019 3:32:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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what WaPo is really trying to do here is to signal to their fellow travelers in the television branch of the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia that they need to quit ASKING those “raise-your-hand” questions because they provide absolutely devastating campaign material for the GOP ...

a sound bite can capture the lunacy of only a single Democrat, whereas a single picture of ALL Democrats simultaneously raising their hands to give illegal aliens free medical care totally destroys the entire bunch in just the few milliseconds it takes for the visual cortex to process the image of the entire field of Democrats in that single image ...


17 posted on 07/16/2019 8:25:27 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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But we know how much you love hand-raising questions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsSDbC5G0GE


18 posted on 07/16/2019 8:55:29 PM PDT by conservative98
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...Democratic presidential candidates should join in an informal union (they are pro-union, aren’t they?) and agree to stop answering “raise your hands” questions in debates. Inevitably, they are forced later to say that this or that issue is complicated, that the question they were asked was not exactly the right question — and the more they explain themselves, the more slippery they look.

The Founders believed a free people required information about their government, which a 'free press' would provide.

Now we have media flacks telling politicians to lie by omission.

19 posted on 07/16/2019 11:49:19 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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I love those questions. The dems are too scared to be the odd person out.


20 posted on 07/17/2019 12:04:05 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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