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Voters want to get things done.
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Voters
Done Things Want
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America needs a long-term vision.
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Long Term
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I was as middle class as it comes.
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Middle Class
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I've grown up in a very diverse background.
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Diverse
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Citizens United was no victory for free speech.
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Free Speech
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Complaining
Tired
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Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.
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Florida
Swing
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Way too many voters are apathetic and don't do their research and are on the sidelines.
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Apathetic
Sidelines
Voters
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I worked as a day laborer throughout college, worked for Deloitte and Touche, got my CPA.
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Laborer
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The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.
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Dramatically
Intensified
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A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.
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Determine
Folks
Backward
Calculation
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My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.
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Stretch
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As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.
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Response
Committee
Primary
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There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.
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Being Afraid
Burying
Climate Change
Sand
Aloud
Heads
Mention
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We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.
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Finance
Campaign Finance
Campaign Finance Reform
Comprehensive
Passing
Political Parties
Unlimited
Unaccountable
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As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
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College
Electoral College
Florida
Population
States
Among
Crown
Electoral
Jewel
Swing
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Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
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Access
Debt
Deserve
Employment
Middle Class
Stable
Mountains
Opportunities
Strengthened
Young People
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The decision in Citizens United said that money equals speech, a position that I - and a vast majority of Americans, in poll after poll - could not disagree with more.
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Disagree
Equals
Poll
Vast Majority
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There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on a woman's right to choose and on marriage equality.
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Compromise
Marriage Equality
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Register
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In the 2016 U.S. Senate race, I was on the receiving end of more than $3 million in outside negative attacks funded by the NRA, the second-most spent on any Senate campaign in the country.
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Nra
Receiving
Senate
Attacks
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Privacy
Ramifications
Vote
Cuts
Political System
Threats
Young People
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The impact of our warming planet will likely lead to even stricter zoning and building codes to account for the rising sea levels visible in places like South Beach - even on days without a cloud in sky.
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Beach
Levels
Rising
Sea
Sky
Visible
Account
Cloud
Codes
Stricter
Warming
Zoning
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What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?
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Formal
Gun
Scourge
Deaths
Final
Introduce
Signed
Straw
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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Attention
Continuing
Election
Election Day
Involved
Pay
Pay Attention
Political
Process
Young
Decisions
Need
Accountable
Does
End
Stay
Holding
Leaders
Political Process
Young People
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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Frustrated
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Extreme
Parties
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The closely divided presidential election of 2000 - in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida - forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.
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Blue
Consciousness
Defeated
Divided
Election
Florida
Forever
Gore
Margins
Presidential
Presidential Election
Red
Al
Al Gore
Bush
Closely
Divide
George
George W
George W. Bush
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No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should not be a partisan issue for any reason, as any candidate or party could be on the receiving end of a hack at any time.
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Receiving
White House
Candidate
Hack
Partisan
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I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.
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Mentality
Sand
Sorry
Tea Party
Family Work Business
Drawn
Highway
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As a 9-year-old child, I vividly remember the day Hurricane Andrew touched down in 1992. My family was living in the Upper Florida Keys at the time, and we soon realized its utter devastation to South Florida, with entire blocks leveled by Andrew's vicious winds.
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Andrew
Devastation
Florida
South Florida
Touched
Vicious
Time Family Day
Blocks
Utter
Family Time Day
Hurricane
Family Time Remember
Leveled
Upper
Vividly
Winds
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We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man climate change are negatively impacting our way of life. This should be a bipartisan task that finds support with bipartisan solutions.
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Acknowledge
Bipartisan
Climate Change
Flood
Sea
Solutions
Caused
Life Change Reality
Codes
Finds
Insurance
Programs
Negatively
Strengthen
Task
Temperatures
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Politically speaking, Miami-Dade was once a Republican stronghold, thanks in large part to older Cuban voters who became more politically influential following the Bay of Pigs invasion. In contrast, Democrats used to rely on votes in North Florida and the Space Coast in an era of much softer partisanship.
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Coast
Contrast
Cuban
Florida
Influential
Invasion
Partisanship
Pigs
Rely
Thanks
Voters
Bay
Large Part
Politically
Softer
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