The allegedly undecided voters oh the CNN ticker got all excited when Obama started talking about capabilities-based strategy? These are not undecided voters, they are defense department bureaucrats.
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During last night's CNN town halls, Bernie Sanders endorsed reinstating the voting rights of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, and Kamala Harris indicated that she was open to the idea.
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