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Blue Dogs are vulnerable to "primarying" -- running primary candidates to their left.
Talking with Todd Gitlin about President Obama and the Health Care Crisis 2009
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How about throwing his weight behind more primarying?
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves 2010
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In retrospect primarying Lieberman might have been a mistake, but if so it was a very complex one.
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In retrospect primarying Lieberman might have been a mistake, but if so it was a very complex one.
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Sununu Jr. was a one-term senator, who got in by primarying the total loony Bob Smith (who was very conservative, and who actually briefly left the Republican Party); that was a case where shedding the incumbent actually helped the Republicans keep the seat.
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For Republicans, the answer is simple and well known: By primarying and defeating even stalwart conservatives, the tea party has turned positions once on the outer edge of conservative politics, like dismantling Medicare, into a minimum litmus test for GOP candidates.
Ari Melber: On the Compromiser-in-Chief and Elizabeth Drew's Article Ari Melber 2011
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Replace the RINOs by primarying them with solid conservatives.
With regard to the health care rationing bill passing: Don’t get mad. | RedState 2010
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How about throwing his weight behind more primarying?
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves 2010
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For Republicans, the answer is simple and well known: By primarying and defeating even stalwart conservatives, the tea party has turned positions once on the outer edge of conservative politics, like dismantling Medicare, into a minimum litmus test for GOP candidates.
Ari Melber: On the Compromiser-in-Chief and Elizabeth Drew's Article Ari Melber 2011
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If you want to change the centerpoint of the Democratic coalition, you have to start primarying people.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism 2009
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