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PBC News & Comment: Midterms Define Democrats as Desperate, Irrelevant #2 Corporate Party

Midterm election blowout exposes Democratic Party as irrelevant #2 corporate party, with weak, fear-based tactics aimed at wedging liberal base…..

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–Dems spent big on Hagan, Grimes and Landrieu, damaging the brand in desperate effort to hold seats
–in many races, Dems used bad strategy: Udall in Colorado ran solely on choice, Davis in Texas de-emphasized her strongest issue
–GOP voter suppression and superPacs made the difference in close races
–voters legalize weed in Oregon, Alaska and DC; GMO labeling killed in Colorado
–soda tax passes in Berkeley, fails in San Francisco
–new Princeton study says US is no longer an actual democracy
Other news:

–after 13 years, Kuwaiti man is finally released from Guantanamo
–at Vice News, Jason Leopold publishes documents related to Samir Khan, American killed by drone strike without any legal process https://news.vice.com/article/primary-sources-new-documents-on-us-citizen-killed-in-cia-drone-strike

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