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This is some phenomenal, self-refuting garbage from Vox.

vox.com/policy-and-pol…
If Democrats are seeing all of these viral moments - if her hearing performances are "impressive", as the article claims - then she should have high negatives among Republicans and high positives among Democrats.
Instead, she has high negatives among Republicans, and Democrats are "meh" about her - with lots of them saying they don't have an opinion. Given how her flood of favorable coverage, that ambivalence among Democrats suggests that...she's just not that popular.
"that a Democratic backbencher could get this much attention...[is] a testament to how much of a phenomenon she is on the Democratic left." Yet her weak polling among Democrats is because she's been so vilified by right-wing media?
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