• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    She’s one of a few the Republicans have had strategically vote against the party when her vote wasn’t needed to pass a bill. Basically her, Murkowski, and for a while McCain, until he really bucked the party with the ACA vote and became a pariah until his death.

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      3 hours ago

      The strategy being “pretend you’re not an evil fuckface to get more votes”, presumably?

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        3 hours ago

        Yes, in competitive states, they when by playing the reasonable centrist that swears they are willing to stand up to their party…

        Never actually doing so when it could actually matter.