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I have a friends who cast their first votes ever for then-California Gov. Jerry Brown in the 1976 presidential primaries. Gov. Brown was seen as the future of the Democratic party; I think he was all of 38 years old at the time. The more things change...
The other day I used the term "Rockefeller Republican." In mock horror, one of my friends said "You mean Jay Rockefeller used to be a Republican?!?"
The above story does lead to another point, I remember when "liberal Republican" and "conservative Democrat" were not contradictions-in-terms
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