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The Democrats Become the Party of Values
Obama's speech showed how Republicans, under Trump, have ceded the higher ground on religion and morals.
"We don't look to be ruled."
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At their convention last week, the Donald Trump Republicans left gaping holes in their case for their ticket. On the third night of the Democrats' convention in Philadelphia, speaker after speaker drove through those huge gaps, leaving a path for President Barack Obama to flatten the opposition at the end.
These words and arguments may have inspired and electrified the crowd in Philadelphia, but we don’t know how all of it will play with swing voters. We always have to wait for the polls to find out. But if elections were decided based on logical arguments -- and we know they are not -- then the referee would have stopped this battle somewhere in maybe the first 15 minutes of Obama’s speech.