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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I saw the Hala Ayala commercials, where she opened with "I'm the first Afro-Latino candidate," I knew the Democratic ticket was doomed.  When will the party learn that jobs and family issues matter so much more to everyday Joes and Janes in Virginia than identify politics?[/quote]

Now please go respond to all of the Rs posting about Sears earlier. Or maybe it's only and issue when a D does it. 
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It is only an issue when Democrats do it.  Democratic voters and Republican voters tend to be very different.  For Republican voters, voting isn’t so much about the issues, it’s more about social and cultural identity.  You are Republican because that’s what your kind of people do.  It lets Republicans take wildly inconsistent positions without being questioned by their base, because the base can’t question them without losing their social standing within their community (which isn’t necessarily their neighborhood - it could be a church community, family, a circle of friends, even an online community).  If the Republicans are doing it, it just be good.  If Democrats are doing it, it must be bad.  Even when both are doing the same thing.

Democrats tend to be more issues voters.  Their identity is tied to taking the “right” position on key issues, even at the expense of other priorities, and even at times at the expense of making incremental progress on those very key issues.  It’s not necessarily a more effective approach in practice, because they tend to eat their own when they have different ideas of what those key issues should be, but they are generally more invested in maintaining principled lines and not appearing to be hypocrites on their key issues.[/quote]

Like "Blue not matter who!" That is an issue, right?[/quote]

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