Then there are the "REAL DEMOCRATS" the 12% of the party that is loud the Ultra Liberal wing of the party forcing candidates forwards that have zero chance of wining in socially conservative and moderate areas where to win you must win republican votes. Who go around spouting ideas that would sell in Manhattan Ny but not in Manhattan Kansas.
Also we no longer have real locals running we have alot of transplants running that have lived in the areas less than 15 years. That have no real cultural understanding of the area running and one pops up the activists (people with too much free time and little understand of where they live) try to run them out of the race.
The other part of the problem is we run elitist politicans in areas where that is considered insulting. Running a Liberal college professor in an area like the T of pennsylvania is a recipe for losing. Examples of this are the two they are running right now Steven Porter and Phil Avillo neither of which have any chance of winning Porter got slaughtered the last time and Avillo's anti-war activism has made him unelectable in this pro-miltary area, highly conservative distict that hasn't elected a democrat since the Johnson sweep of 1964.
The other thing I keep hearing is base base base i'm sorry the Liberal activist in the party aren't the base. They make up slightly more than a 1/10 of the party and make come out of a group that is slightly larger than the number of Conservatives in the party.
Most Democrats are self Id Moderates, not Dlc moderates the DLC is the Conservative wing of the party. The moderates are the group that fall inbetween the Dlc and DFA wing of the party.
The group the party ignores the people that go in vote in the primary vote in the general election then go home but say little inbetween. THe group you scream and yell at call them republican lite. The ones you insult by calling them stupid.
John Kerry is not a Moderate John Kerry is a Left wing elitist politican. That was somewhat aligned with the DLC for money. Just because you fought in a war does not make you a moderate.
IF Kerry had been a moderate he would be president now.
You want to win run represtive candidate in representive areas
