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The Year of the Exhausted Majority

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The Chuck Schumer Super PAC Strategy of Pumping Money Into Opponents

David Gergen: The Chuck Schumer super PAC strategy of pumping money into your opponents in order to get the worst opponent so that your team can win was incredibly effective. He says there was no voter backlash because how could there be even if you don't like the tactic? And so the option is to vote for the crazy person, he says.Gergen: I fear that the lesson learned is that this is effective. It's relatively easy. There's money to do it. and there was no Voter backlash as we saw with Claire McCaskill or Todd Aiken.

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