Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy"

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Fri Jul 22 13:32:43 PDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>


> All this bullshit about a Democratic machine. It's
> non-existent.

-Maybe in New York, I wouldn't venture to say. Not in -Chicago, though, machine is alive and ill -- Pat -Fitzgerald is going after da Mare.

Okay, fair enough and there are remains in various locations, of course. But it's far weaker everywhere, even at the local level, and non-existent on the national basis.

Which in some ways is arguably a loss, since the local machines, however crude, were often more populist than the corporate money lobbyists of various stripes that influence the independent operator consultants of today.

Nathan Newman



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