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How would this one party overcome the partisan divide? Seems like wishful thinking. Is there any evidence of this strategy working somewhere?
by rp1 5y ago
How would this one party overcome the partisan divide? Seems like wishful thinking. Is there any evidence of this strategy working somewhere?
- specialist 5y agoParties don't just float candidates in elections. They also form policy, endorse, fund raise, lobby, etc.
- Spooky23 5y agoTammany Hall was this party in New York for a long time. They just didn’t go away. More recently, New York had a thing called the “independent democratic conference” that caucused with the Republican Party to provide them with majority control of the NY Senate. The problem with these types of entities is that they are about power, not policy.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoIt wouldn't, that's the whole point of partisan divides, to distract people from what really matters with more emotional and easy-to-understand but less consequential issues.