Thursday, September 07, 2023

Don't Read Polls

 

This morning, Thomas Mills on PoliticsNC.com was taking up the thorny subject of Biden's bad polling and the incipient panic spreading among Democratic Party activists -- he was defending Biden -- and he wrote a paragraph that I immediately copied down for its historic wisdom:

Is 82 too old to run for president? Maybe, but nobody is going to challenge him. There’s no cabal of Democratic insiders who could edge him out. The party is a loose coalition of interest groups, not a small group of power brokers. The infighting in the party is legendary and often leads to Democrats getting defined by extremes that actually have little power but get a lot of lip service. As Will Rogers famously said, “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”

Factions. Madison warned us about them. But in the Democratic Party, they're essential DNA and maybe too its potential strength -- when and if the factions unite for a cause. Trump's running for president again, and Mark Robinson's running for governor -- that could be the cause.


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  1. Anonymous12:36 PM

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