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Matthews asks if electorally dominant Democratic Party "suffers from the fact it's such a bi-coastal party"

October 08, 2009 6:39 pm ET

From the October 8 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:

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Democrats currently hold 60 Senate seats, 256 House seats, and the presidency.

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    • Author by DAWUSS (October 08, 2009 6:41 pm ET)
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      So the West-Coast Democrats are infighting with the East-Coast Democrats?
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    • Author by SFnomad (October 08, 2009 6:42 pm ET)
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      No, we suffer from a dumb as a brick, let's vote against our own self interests, flyover section of the country.
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (October 08, 2009 7:04 pm ET)
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      So the Democrats are a "bi-coastal party" in that we basically swept the states on both coasts? Hey Chris- the Democrats also won a lot of states that AREN'T on either coast.

      Or is Chris saying that the Democrats are so dominant, they "must" be divided? By that logic, the Republicans must be in awesome shape.

      The Republicans certainly ARE more united than the Democrats- it's really not that hard to keep a tiny band of morons united. Is that what Matthews meant?
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    • Author by snoopy (October 08, 2009 7:07 pm ET)
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      Don't know about bi-coastal but we do suffer from being such a big tent multi interest party. Sometimes I envy republicans, all they have to appeal to is lower base instincts.
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    • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (October 08, 2009 7:56 pm ET)
         
      We suffer from a corporate media that won't tell the truth.

      "And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

      - Sen. Dick Durbin
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (October 08, 2009 8:34 pm ET)
         
      I'm not sure that Coasts have as much to do with it as Metropolitan areas.
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (October 08, 2009 10:41 pm ET)
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      Two Democratic Senators in each of the following states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas, North Dakota, West Virginia and Montana.

      Democratic governors in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

      What do all those states have in common? No oceans.

      "Bi-coastal" indeed.
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      • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (October 08, 2009 10:42 pm ET)
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        Oh, two Dem Senators in Minnesota, too. And no seawater.
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        • Author by mjh (October 09, 2009 12:07 am ET)
             
          "Oh, two Dem Senators in Minnesota, too. And no seawater."


          . . . but don't forget: they DO have 10,000 lakes! :~)

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    • Author by mjh (October 09, 2009 12:16 am ET)
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      Matthews asks if electorally dominant Democratic Party "suffers from the fact it's such a bi-coastal party"



      TRANSLATION: Tweety wonders if the fact that a VAST MAJORITY of the American people voted Democratic in the past two national elections means the Republicans will suffer by becoming a regional party . . .

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