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Originally Posted by smooth
the whole question seems strange to me because it misses the point of political parties: to change the system to something they would find better for their interests
so I don't know how a satisfied and generally happy group of people would function as a political party...other than just hang around the other parties trying to change things and make them feel good.
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Couple this with the demonstrated fact that negative campaigning
works, and you've got exactly the perfect setup for the situation described in the OP.
Now: traditionally (and in this particular season), bitterly negative campaigns are used by the candidate who's behind. Their campaign becomes less about their positives and more about putting dents in the front-runner. And that's what's happening here. Strangely--and this has little historic precedent--it's not working this time. The hard-core GOP who are going to follow McCain to hell are buying the attacks, but it appears that moderates and independents are repulsed. Probably because of the perfect-storm domestic issues going on right now, would be my guess. They don't want somebody who can slime the opposition, they want somebody who has answers and can solve problems.