“Running As Dems While SOUNDING REPUBLICAN.” Hey, What Could Go Wrong?

[HomerRamone]

11. "If this were to become a common pattern among Democrats,

voters would lose an essential feature of democracy: the ability to choose between two competing visions."

"would"?

http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

"In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule -- at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it."