One follow up question: how much does their preference for moderates have to do with fundraising? My sense (per your prior reporting) is that the establishment prefers candidates who can self-fund or have enough rich friends, who are much more likely to be moderate.
Party organizations are not pragmatic, they just genuinely prefer moderates, new research finds https://interc.pt/2s3jEzZ by @ddayen & me
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If you read the story, you see that the author correlates "moderate ideology" with a database of donor support from within the party networks, and it ends up being as accurate as DW-Nominate
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Yeah I was confused about that part. Isn’t that more an effect of having been brought into the party network than an candidate’s prior network? I’m just trying to see how the party weighs Rolodex vs ideology. Aka how this article connects with: https://static.theintercept.com/amp/democratic-party-political-fundraising-dccc.html …
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No, because the party-related donations represent a small percentage of overall donations. The DIME database does pattern matching across a huge dataset to estimate ideology, and it works. It's not just party donations.
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Seems like the iron law of institutions at work http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001705.html …
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Maybe Americans get the candidates They want
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