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9. Or visa-versa. Republican primaries do involve fighting.

Wed Apr 2, 2014, 01:00 PM

Apr 2014

I think the "mainstream" Republicans that get beaten by tea-party types in primaries are probably already much better funded than the whackos.

And a crazy billionaire can be a tea-partier. There are cases.

I don't have a strong feel for the tea-party factor in this—as of today I could argue either side of it.

But the creation of fake parties to take advantage of the fact of individual candidacies, as the money-limiting unit, rather donors as the limiting unit, is surely being considered as we speak, by some very odious people.

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