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In reply to the discussion: Ocasio Cortez is a uniter, not a divider [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)197. Knowing one's district is shopping in the same stores voters shop in.
Out making your own grocery. Stopping when a voter want to talk to you. Having an office around the district and making sure that it is staffed. Meeting with any group that wants to respectfully sit down and discuss issue with you. I can bet that Cortez knows the prices for rent, a loaf of bread, orange juice, a weekly subway pass, I don't believe that Crowley does. Voters want to know that someone representing them are accessible, at least democratic voters do, republican voters, they are truly messed up and vote for their tribe, even when they get screwed afterward.
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Alexandria is such a breath of fresh air... she IS the future of the Democratic Party!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2018
#50
It's just a prediction... Alexandria has a winning POSITIVE progressive message...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2018
#126
Honestly, I think there is too much hyberbole about her from different ideologies.
NY_20th
Jun 2018
#142
I don't know if it has national appeal, but it certainly had appeal in her district,
NY_20th
Jun 2018
#146
So...if she does, even if small donations don't cut it for her run, then she is to be pilloried?
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2018
#97
Geeze, give her a few weeks to get up to speed on how the Beltway would like her to behave
BeyondGeography
Jun 2018
#7
You obviously are confused as to the origin of the term "corporate Democrats."
R B Garr
Jun 2018
#48
Agreed, nothing sinister at all...certainly won't make corporations happy...isn't that a good thing?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2018
#66
This reaction is a surprise?! Alexandria shines a bright light that has shown us the way...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2018
#63
She seems to have a history of fighting the right fights as an activist and social organizer.
Blue_true
Jun 2018
#76
I think some of the opposition comes from her being associated with Our Revolution.
Blue_true
Jun 2018
#106
"She doesn't seem to have learned from what happened on November 8, 2016, though."
NY_20th
Jun 2018
#57
Her opponent, Joe Crowley, D, is a classy uniter too; he threw his full support behind her. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2018
#72
I probably would've voted for Joe Crowley if I was in that district; now I support Ocasio-Cortez.
NBachers
Jun 2018
#79
The 28th and 29th. Four interviews in same dress (for MSNBC she wore a jacket over it).
betsuni
Jun 2018
#143
The word "only" seems to be missing, and that post is not dismissive of the victory.
lapucelle
Jul 2018
#185
It's a locution with dubious associations, but I'm sure Voltaire would defend it,
lapucelle
Jul 2018
#193
That's why it's important not to characterize conjecture concerning possible explanations
lapucelle
Jul 2018
#196