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Could Someone Like John Edwards Have Saved the Democrats?
Real Clear Politics ^ | January 2017 | David Byler

Posted on 11/03/2019 5:38:46 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

What happened to President Obama’s majority?

The surface-level answer to this question is simple. Donald Trump won over a supermajority of white working-class voters while holding on to many traditional Republicans, allowing him to win the Electoral College. At the same time, down-ballot Republicans built on their solid showings in 2010 and 2014, which helped them retain control of Congress and significant power in the states.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 1bloggers; 2020; breckgirl; edwards; johnedwards
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

But someone like Jonathan Edwards could really save Democrats.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/theologians/jonathan-edwards.html


41 posted on 11/03/2019 7:45:17 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification.)
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To: goldstategop

No John Edwards was a big phony who was a slick personal injury lawyer with a nice hairdo like Gavin Newsome. He had no principles and was another womanizer in the vein of Bill Clinton.


42 posted on 11/03/2019 8:27:23 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Oh look, RINOPuff fantasizing about “moderates” again. How quaint.


43 posted on 11/03/2019 8:57:10 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: GuavaCheesePuff; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; goldstategop
Obama would have had to have smoked a lot of crack before even he would have made Hillary Defense Secretary, Biden at the Pentagon would have made more sense than THAT.

Also Edwards was a punk ass commie (ACU rating 10%) in a folksy shell. Basically a young Biden, minus all the actual semi-moderate votes Biden cast back in the day. Or if you will, he was Bill Clinton without a Hillary.

44 posted on 11/03/2019 9:08:29 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Geez, that guy (Edwards) was such scum that even most of the Dems threw him under the bus... eventually. And it takes a LOT to get them to do that.


45 posted on 11/03/2019 9:17:59 PM PST by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The dems know that all of their potential candidates are losers. They are desperately seeking someone that can give Trump a run for their money. There are a couple that are not in the game currently. But I bet they could not stand the scrutiny.


46 posted on 11/03/2019 9:42:42 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Revolutionary

The Democrats desperately need someone like Jonathan Edwards.


47 posted on 11/03/2019 10:49:59 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: Texas Eagle

No, they mean the psychic medium. He would probably have decent shot.


48 posted on 11/04/2019 4:29:51 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Lurker

Donna Rice was actually worth it.


49 posted on 11/04/2019 4:31:58 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: goldstategop

He wasn’t a moderate. He was hard-left. The party wouldn’t tolerate anyone who wasn’t a far-leftist in 2004. I remember a headline showing Lurch-Breck Girl ticket was “to the left of Ted Kennedy.”


50 posted on 11/04/2019 4:56:12 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Only you could post an article like this.


51 posted on 11/04/2019 4:57:45 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Paul R.

Even Kerry knew something was wrong with Edwards (in the head). There was some story that Edwards had gone around telling that had to do with something deeply personal and would preface it by saying, “I haven’t told anyone this, BUT...” Kerry was initially touched by Edwards when he shared the story, until he found out Edwards had been doing that same schtick with a lot of others.


52 posted on 11/04/2019 5:00:13 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: TexasGurl24

His beloved Demonrat Commie “Moderates.”


53 posted on 11/04/2019 5:04:11 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

-—What happened to President Obama’s majority?-—

Obama was black and could look good while reading a speech. He was deemed to be an orator but was in fact a skilled oral reader. Many democrats did their duty and voted for a black president to avoid looking bad. They know what they got and will not repeat that mistake.

The truly ironic fact is that there appears to be evidence that black men are escaping the plantation in adequate numbers to eliminate the black majority as an electoral factor.

Biden is an old white man. He is not black. He is not black. Biden is not inheriting the black Obama legacy

Political and cultural analysis


54 posted on 11/04/2019 5:11:12 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Opie? What a stupid question! Go away!


55 posted on 11/04/2019 5:20:37 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Indeed.


56 posted on 11/04/2019 6:51:27 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Indeed.


57 posted on 11/04/2019 6:51:27 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Lysandru

Colleges and high schools have become a cesspool of leftist indoctrination, going back the PC movement of the 90s.


58 posted on 11/04/2019 6:35:55 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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