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>Is there really a difference between the two establishment parties anymore?

Oh, you better believe it - there is a HUGE difference between the two parties. If you didn't get that from what has happened under George Bush and the contrast with how Al Gore would have governed, then you simply haven't been paying attention. We would not be in Iraq; we would be trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restoring our environment in other ways; we wouldn't have a $9 trillion debt or our huge current deficit; we would moving toward more children and other disadvantaged citizens benefitting from health insurance and other benefits; and the White House and our Supreme Court wouldn't be accessories in the chipping away of our civil liberties.

The two-party system isn't perfect, but it provides us a yin-yang (some might say yo-yo) way of constantly seeking the center of public intentions. Now is not the time to split the vote that pulls that center more leftward. Vote for Clinton or Obama, Merkley or Novick, Schrader or Marks, and reject the failed, destructive Republican policies of the last 7+ years.

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