Dems

[Brad De Long]

>
>What's the question? Why did McGovern fail electorally, or why did the
>leadership of the Democrats try (successfully) to purge the party of its
>social dem strain?
>
>Doug

They are the same question: the second is a consequence of the first. If
McGovern or McGovernite candidates had won national elections, there would
have been no significant desire to make sure that they didn't win
primaries...

Brad DeLong