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New From Keith Olbermann: Gutting Health Care Will Kill Americans

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Belafon3/14/2017 5:55:36 am PDT

I thought this was a really great comment over at Daily Kos about Democrats like Manchin, who we all want to strangle at times, but he did come out strongly against Republicare:

Supporting Manchin’s re-nomination as a Democrat isn’t just “think[ing] of the immediate election”. West Virginia’s been hit by a partisan shift that will take decades to reverse, and a lot of careful and patient work. I’d rather have Senator Manchin for those decades than whoever his GOP replacement would be.

Running a progressive who’s out of tune with the state doesn’t help the long-term effort either — it’s just tone-deaf. In fact, pushing the locally-well-liked Manchin out in a primary is probably the single worst thing we could do as a party to convince West Virginians that there is still room for them in our coalition.