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DNC Treats LGBT Community As Awkward Party Crasher
John Aravosis has the story . Here's a leaked e-mail from Andy Tobias, DNC Treasurer, to donors: 1. An email went out asking activists to make calls to New Jersey. It was insensitive not to omit Mainers from that email. I apologize that no one thought to do that. I can't imagine it could have ...
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gay.americablog.com — Correction: The nation, minus the Democratic Party. Joe wrote last night about how the DNC's "Organizing for... America" organization (formerly known as "Obama for America") emailed Maine voters yesterday about today's election, but failed to mention ... (more) gay ballot measure
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Weekend Opinionator: Are Democrats, Too, Facing a Civil War?
Opinionator — ... ). In any case, Adam Bink at OpenLeft thought Tobias’s explanation only made things worse: Andy seems to mock LGBT complaints … by saying it would have been nice to ask Mainers to vote No ‘in case there may have been an email-enabled Organizing for America activist someplace in Maine who did NOT know where Maine Democrats stood on this issue. (Out of the country without Internet access until the night before the election?)’ Again, Andy, you’re missing the point. One of the biggest priorities for this campaign in an off-year election was turning out young voters, and that was ...

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