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To: BroJoeK; PeaRidge
Wake up BroJoeK. Wake up! Wake up!

Guess when this behind the scenes influence started and where?

12 posted on 10/18/2016 6:07:15 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
" Guess when this behind the scenes influence started and where?"

When John Adams was VP he didn't attend Senate meetings, instead spent his time in a local coffee house.
Politicians of all stripes would stop in to learn what's what, and make plans, sort of a shadow cabinet, dontchknow.

Then Jefferson fell out, first with Washington himself, then with his erstwhile close friend Adams, got so angry he went off with Madison & others to start a new party -- called themselves Democratic-Republicans iirc.
And thus was **politics** born.

And what a doozey it was!
That election of 1800 got nasty enough ours seem pretty tame by comparison.

13 posted on 10/18/2016 4:18:52 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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