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Scootaloo

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2. "Don't believe everything you read"

Reply to Leopolds Ghost (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:50 PM

Jun 2012

No doubt. The supposed "red states" really are full of people on our side. The poor generally know who's on their side.

It's the suburbanites and their knock-off "I'm not poor i'm middle class from my double-wide" fellows that pull things to the right.

Trouble is that the people who are really down... tend to not vote. They have to work. or the nearest polling place is an hour drive away. or they're too tired. Or any number of other things that hobble the poor when it comes to voting.

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I went to look at something recently [View all] Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 OP

Good luck with it Vincardog Jun 2012 #1

I was a bit worried about asking for directions because of the racial makeup of our road trip Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #4

"Don't believe everything you read" Scootaloo Jun 2012 #2

Yep. It's the whole 53% mentality of suburbanites who insist they're upper-middle class Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #3