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James Carville

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Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!
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Account of speech to a group, in Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 2

 
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