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Dave Ross gets schooled by a Bernie Sanders delegate

Jul 27, 2016, 5:51 AM | Updated: 10:29 am

There were a few protest signs during Tuesday’s Democratic roll call vote in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention, but when Bernie Sanders himself called for his rival to be nominated by acclamation, even the truest of true believers knew it was over.

“I think I need to maybe take some time and accept what has happened and maybe, eventually, get behind Clinton, and maybe not…” one Bernie supporter told me.

One reason it’s tough is these women believe in a different kind of politics, as I found out when I asked this question: “What’s the difference between young female Democrats and young female Republicans?”

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“I think that is a silly and needlessly divisive question,” the woman responded. “We’re both politically motivated. We have different ideas about what is best and we disagree. But I don’t think it would be right or OK to try and spin it in such a way that makes either of us vitriolic toward one another.”

Is it OK for a Democrat to take a Republican idea and give them credit for it? I asked.

“Why wouldn’t you give someone credit for their idea?” she said. “Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean it’s a wholly bad idea. And I think these kinds of needlessly divisive questions – frankly — I don’t think it’s very good journalism.”

“Well, it is all my fault for asking the question, but you answered it really well,” I said.

“That’s what I do,” she said.

A politician once told me: “The secret to politics is that you can get anything done as long as you don’t care who gets the credit.” And it was a Republican who told me that.

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