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What planet are you on? Not this one, that’s for sure. Republicans are uniting? You couldn’t prove it by what they are saying. Or by their steadily diminishing minority. Democrats are engaging in purity tests? Sure they are. That’s why they united behind Joe Biden, and passed ARP with not one Republican vote, and the infrastructure package with very few. It’s time to come down to Earth.

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Sheesh. Mitch McConnell's Senate. The Leonard Leo Supreme Court. RNC. Unite the Right is the GOP motto. What they *say*? Seriously. They will *say* anything. Listen to Susan Collins. She says all sorts of nice stuff -and then marches lock step with McConnell. You shall know them by their deeds.

Yes Democrats united behind Biden. THANKYOU James Clyburn. ThankYou all the Democratic contenders who stepped down from their personal ambition and stepped up for their Country and Party. ThankYou all the Democratic voters, many of them for whom unity did not come easy.

Yes after the 2016 disaster, many on the Left joined the Biden coalition in 2020.

But comments about 'short list of Democrats I would vote for for president' show that many consider their vote a personal expression of their own deeply held feelings - rather than a tactic to strategically unite for a shared goal.

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Right on the button, lin. Thank you.

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Unfortunately, at the local level, certain progressives are pushing purity tests and they constantly diss Biden. If a pol takes even a dime from a corporation, that person is a corporate D. Our secretary of state here in Oregon just made it more difficult to get measures on the November ballot about campaign money because there is a court decision about the wording of these. They would also apply to unions and that may be part of the problem. The story now is incomplete and I hope there is further information. And Phil Knight just made a large donation to Betsy Johnson, a DINO, who is running as an independent for governor. And no, the Oregon supreme court has not made a decision on Kristof.

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With the incessant national noise, I’ve been less engaged with what’s going on in Oregon at the state level. My bad.

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Not at all your bad. There is so much going on in every state that it is hard to keep track. That's one of the thing that I like about this site; I read about what's going on in other places. And yes, the national noise is very loud.

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