Imagine a Primary Season where voters actually hear from all qualified candidates

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. Well naming them is called a call out per the rules.

but since I will not name names, it is a faction here. It is a conservative faction, and it is loud. It is not limited to this site at all, and it has been discussed by party members at different levels of state democratic parties.

In fact, this no fuss primary has even made it all the way to the Wall Street Journal. But you can take my word on this or not, if you do any level of political reporting, you have come across this. I just shake my head, but it is out there.

The Democratic political establishment isn’t all that eager to talk about it publicly, but make no mistake: Many prominent figures in the party would just as soon avoid a hard-fought, contested primary in the 2016 presidential race.

What they seem to prefer instead is a no-muss, no-fuss nomination season with the party coalescing behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The strategy has certain advantages. Democrats could build a formidable war chest and sit back while Republican candidates wrestle for the GOP nomination.

This isn’t how the Democrats typically do business. In 1980, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy challenged a sitting president, Jimmy Carter, for the Democratic nomination. Sen. Bill Bradley took a shot against incumbent Vice President Al Gore in 2000. And, yes, in 2008 a first-term senator named Barack Obama successfully challenged the candidate who seemed the prohibitive front-runner: Mrs. Clinton.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/03/17/democrats-seek-no-fuss-primary-in-2016-race/

Yes, it is going back to 1968. And yes, it is a very specific faction represented on this website well.

It is not a mystery either, why all the push back that it is getting from the other prominent faction on this site. That would be the progressives.

As I said in the OP, imagine a primary, I will add now, with two or more candidates. Of course, a muscular primary also makes for a better story, so there is some self interest there. But it also leads to a better prepared nominee.