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<p>Progressives need to begin “holding their noses” and voting based on a transactional rather than moral understanding of politics.</p>

<p>Progressives need to begin “holding their noses” and voting based on a transactional rather than moral understanding of politics.</p>

>> exactly. >> and in a way, i think reince priebus and the boys with their multi, multi, dozen state efforts to keep the blacks from the voting booths aroused -- you tell me. >> no. i think the voter suppression efforts drove up the black vote. i think they ticked people off and they made people more determined to show up at the polls. you saw that effect particularly in a state like ohio, for example. which was sort of ground zero. they really thought they had something going in ohio. it turne...

Couldnt vote, its extraordinary. >> talk about this. talk about this. theres three things going on here. one is the black vote is at least keeping its own in terms of showing up. which is the key. woody allen said 80% of life is showing up. if you dont show up and vote, you aint voting. you can only complain then. you can still complain if you vote, of course. thats fair enough. the other thing the effort to try to screw the black voter in every way, no sunday voting, shorter hours, more paperwo...

Here. one is the black vote is at least keeping its own in terms of showing up. which is the key. woody allen said 80% of life is showing up. if you dont show up and vote, you aint voting. you can only complain then. you can still complain if you vote, of course. thats fair enough. the other thing the effort to try to screw the black voter in every way, no sunday voting, shorter hours, more paperwork, photo id, anything that will slow down the black vote. this other thing here is this need on th...