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    Arguments over electability are an annoying diversion

    by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency Sep 15, 2019 2 minutes

    Our subject today is a word.

    It seems to be the word of the moment, at least on the political left. One can hardly read an opinion page or watch cable news without confronting this tiresome term, this irksome idiom.

    For the love of heaven, people, please stop saying "electability."

    Note, please, that the last president was a black man with

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