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To: koan who wrote (467395)	2/9/2021 1:00:26 PM
From: Sam	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ron Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540807

You said, "When Obama came into office he had a better congress, and better approval than Biden, and he could have done pretty much anything he wanted, but he was blinded by his desire for bipartisanship." I agree that Obama was in part "blinded by his desire for bipartisanship" but I disagree that he "could have done pretty much anything he wanted". As I said in the post you were replying to, there were more Democrats who were in Manchin's situation--that is, they represented states that were at best purple in the cases of Kansas, Nebraska and Montana, they were becoming very red states. Jon Tester is the only Senator left among the Democrats who were representing those states. And there were a couple of them like Lieberman, who may as well have been a R by the time Obama came along. Numbers in that Senate were deceptive.