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Clinton on Working-Class Southerners, circa 1995: "Screw 'em"

Political Punch - 9th Mar 2010

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Some readers have noted the fact that The Huffington Post is going all to town about an anecdote I reported back in October -- from Sally Bedell Smith's book "For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years" -- that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, during a 1995 retreat called the "Camp David Seminar on the Future of Democracy had some interesting comments about working-class White Southerners who had left the Democratic party: "'Screw 'em,' she said, 'you...

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