There's nothing more entertaining than seeing Democrats fight Democrats.
It seems as though the party apparatus of the Democrats is growing a bit antsy with this year's presidential race. Howard Dean warned the candidates earlier on this week, now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is worried about how the heated race for the Democratic presidential nominee may hurt Democratic candidates for congress.
In a direct mail piece launched by the DCCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee], Speaker Pelosi urges donors not to let the presidential nomination race hurt congressional candidates. Pelosi's plea comes after she received letters from top Clinton donors lambasting her for comments made regarding super-delegates role in the nomination process.
The events of the past week are only more evidence as to why this race is not going to, at least not on the face, strengthen the Democrats. We seem to hear from party insiders and politicos that this will only energize votes from the left, but as we can see there are some unforseen consequences of these 'intra-party' battles.
At least Republicans acknowledged the fact that a long, arduous nomination race would do damage to the party, and possibly lead to lower turnout.
This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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1 comment:
Dragging out the Democratic presidential race is not doing anything besides showing that they know how to fight with one another. I'm hoping this won't happen, but many Democrats could become frustrated with the process and end up not voting. Although many Democrats may be disappointed when the candidate they voted for doesn't get elected, but I think what's most important is that they get their party elected. The candidate is important, but I think many of them would rather have the opposite Demcratic candidate than a Republican candidate again as president.
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