Up @theintercept on new research showing that party leaders support moderates in primaries not to win elections in swing districts, but for a simple reason: they prefer moderateshttps://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/democratic-party-leadership-moderates-dccc/ …
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The research indicates that political parties "have strong incentives to prefer loyalists who can be trusted to implement its preferred policies after the nomination"https://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/democratic-party-leadership-moderates-dccc/ …
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The study not only breaks with other political science findings, but decades of rhetoric from party leaders like Elaine Kamarck, whose own ideology is a mix of sincerity and rapacious corporate advocacyhttps://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/democratic-party-leadership-moderates-dccc/ …
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The analysis showed that party leaders preferred moderate candidates MORE in safe or unwinnable seats than in competitive raceshttps://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/democratic-party-leadership-moderates-dccc/ …
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*Losing* with centrist and moderate-right candidates keeps the money flowing to the apparatus. If the *actual* left takes over the party, the influx of corporate cash to the party and its operatives ceases. It’s a business. (Also why the NRA doesn’t want to win the gun issue.)
Wydaje się, że ładowanie zajmuje dużo czasu.
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