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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won an impressive victory over a Democratic House icon, has charisma and a flair with social media. That she has become to mainstream media THE focal point of the Democratic Party and the foil for Republicans to play the Both Sides game, is ridiculous 1
I have met with a number of the Democrats in their Class of 2018. If anything, as a group, they are to the right of the center of the Democratic Party. Not surprising, given the districts they won. Impressive as AOC is, she is not representative of the majority in the House. 2
If Howard Schultz is using AOC as his foil, he is even more cringeworthy as a candidate than I had thought.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 29, was elected to Congress, and is helping put marginal tax rates, access to health care, and a Green New Deal on the national agenda.

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Their campaigns are managed and financed by the same shadowy entities that have been trying to destroy the Republic for decades.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - the New York City progressive whose upset defeat of incumbent US House Rep. Crowley drew national attention - is visiting Michigan to help Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for governor who has been struggling in the polls: washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ad stands out as a tipping point that both reflected her strengths as a candidate and amplified structural forces working against Rep. Joe Crowley from the very beginning. huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-alex…
One aspect of this I did not get into is the long reach of Gov. Cuomo's 2012 decisions. Some Dems blame him for both failing to veto state Senate's legislative gerrymandering scheme and allowing them to decouple congressional redistricting, which eventually sent it to the courts.
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Devastating news.

The Supreme Court has just upheld Trump’s Muslim Ban - basically citing that he has the power to do such a thing.

This never had anything to do with American safety. It was/is all about bigotry and Islamophobia.

Shame on Trump and shame on this nation.
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