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John1956PA

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9. This niche-cult movement goes back at least thirty year that I know of.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 07:05 AM

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This goofball call to change the way senators are elected goes back at least as far as the 1990s, even before partisan politics was prominent on the web. I think that the sinister operators who cursed the nation with Limbaugh and Gingrich started it.

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