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The shutdown is coming to an end. And, well,

the Democrats are not happy with the Democrats. I've got to start first with this. I see a number

of people on the right saying, well, I mean, the shutdown was good for the Democrats.

They won the elections, after all. That's what this was all for. I do believe the Democrats

wanted to energize their base, but they were going to win anyway. The party out of power

does well in the midterm elections and does really well in the off-off-year

elections. The Virginia Republican campaign of Winston Sears was a disaster. It dragged down

other candidates. It could have been much better run campaign. Winsome Sears' campaign had a lot

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