The Deadly Liberal Delusion

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8. So my money, my choice

I'm not going to give money to people I don't support. The 50 state strategy is fine, as long as it doesn't favor one primary candidate over another. DWS got the DNC to not give data to her primary opponent. That's the national party dictating to the locals who their candidate should be. Obama and Bill Clinton both favored one local candidate over another in primary races. That's not a 50 state strategy, that's PAC like national donors dictating the direction of the party. The original article is fine as far as it went, but it did not also advocate the national leadership staying out of local races. It asserted that we should prefer incumbents over primary challengers. It suggested that representatives voting records shouldn't matter in re-election situations.

I'm curious of those two authors thought that in the early 60's it was wrong for the national party to force the state parties to integrate instead of recognizing that they were merely local politicians facing the reality of their constituents and realizing that they voted with the party 75% of the time.