Am I the only one who finds it frustrating that we focus *so much* on the presidential election?

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13. Look at the difference between Republican rhetoric and Democratic rhetoric

Republicans reliably throw red ideological meat to their base, they keep them in thrall by at least sounding as if they are on the same side as their base. Republican may hold their base in contempt and think they are a bunch of cretins but they pander to the base non stop.

Democrats on the other hand don't do that to nearly the same extent, they take the base for granted and throwing red ideological meat to the Democratic base would hurt the astoundingly fragile fee fees of their big campaign donors and dry up the money spigot.

Hillary has 200 economic advisers who have one goal, come up with something that will pander to the Democratic base while simultaneously not alarming their big contributors, a nearly intractable chore at this point in time.

You might recall that Obama privately assured the Canadian government that his campaign promise to the Democratic base to renegotiate NAFTA was nothing but campaign rhetoric.