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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately, where I live, if they put a turnip up as the candidate for the party that holds the seat, it would still win by a landslide. Actually the typical turnip probably has more independence of thought than our current MP  . |
This concept has been around in Texas so long that we have a term for it - "Yellow Dog" Democrats ("Blue Dog" for Republicans), which mean that those people would vote for a "Yellow (Blue) Dog" for an office if the party nominated it.