Reply #106: your definition of the base is just wrong [View All]

[paulk]

by defination the "base" of anything is the largest part - not the activists that you obviously see as the base. If the activists were the base, we would have had Mike Miles running for the Senate and not Ken Salazar here in Colorado. Miles won in the caucus, when all the activists showed up. He lost in the primary election, when the "base" showed up to vote.

I also think it's a mistake to approach these political questions from such a broad perspective - The Democratic Party is not the monolithic beast you make it out to be - the Democratic party runs liberal candidates where they can win, moderates where they can win, and conservatives where they can win. It's not the job of the overall party to determine ideological purity, it's their job to win elections. Politics are local, like Tip said - and all this talk is just that. Talk.

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