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18. money in politics is best spent on the grassroots level
Mon May 18, 2026, 11:24 AM
May 18

...but the DNC is much more than it's chairman, or it's own campaigning (as if they're supposed to be the subject of our political efforts).

The head of the DNC is responsible for a diverse and often disparate interests from Democrats around the nation. They're not supposed to make them selves the subject of elections by amplifying beyond what candidates and elected officials want or need.

DNC provides research, polling, and funding to assist Democratic candidates across the country.

Both the RNC and DNC have been "traditionally dismissed" as merely being "service providers" that "provide assistance to candidates in the form of campaign funding and expertise but otherwise lack political power," Fordham Political Science professor Boris Heersink said in 2018 study of party brands and political national committees. In part that's true, with each committee helping fund their respective candidates on multiple levels, offering IT support, voter enrollment initiatives, and generally serving as a unifying "infrastructure institution" across the party, as the DNC's Amanda Brown Lierman told Teen Vogue.

The committees are also responsible for establishing their respective party platforms, voted on every four years, to help clarify and synchronize candidate messaging across multiple elections.

Perhaps most notably in terms of public output, each national committee is responsible for their party's similarly acronymed Democratic and Republican National Conventions...

https://theweek.com/politics/dnc-rnc-role-elections-party-politics

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Nominate a non-partisan for president, he/she will win in a landslide gab13by13 May 18 #1
Lol... no. n/t demmiblue May 18 #2
What? Happy Hoosier May 18 #4
Ludicrous BannonsLiver May 18 #24
They're all welcome to run for house or senate seats in their respective districts/state fujiyamasan May 18 #38
It's good to release it and study it well Polybius May 18 #3
Maybe it shows the Republicans stole the 2024 election Chasstev365 May 18 #5
Michigan doesn't have provisions for a automatic recount in a national election Kaleva May 18 #7
Well, that's Michigan. Chasstev365 May 18 #15
So at least some of your information being inaccurate doesn't make you want to check the rest? EdmondDantes_ May 18 #27
One of the things I love about DU are the fact checkers Kaleva May 18 #33
Honestly, the DNC is a hot mess. Happy Hoosier May 18 #6
It's an opinion piece by someone named Norman Solomon bigtree May 18 #14
I heard Martin's interview with Jon Favreau.... Happy Hoosier May 18 #16
money in politics is best spent on the grassroots level bigtree May 18 #18
So, how do we win national elections? Kid Berwyn May 18 #19
show up and vote for the Democratic nominee bigtree May 18 #23
Is that in the autopsy? Kid Berwyn May 18 #25
The autopsy is bound to be inconclusive because there will be differing explanations for why it happened Quiet Em May 18 #8
Then why did Martin say he WOULD release the whole report? Happy Hoosier May 18 #17
Do you honestly believe there is anything in there that has not already been thoroughly discussed right here on DU? Quiet Em May 18 #22
They won't release it because we won't want to believe it, and it will make us angry. everyonematters May 18 #9
navelgazing nonsense bigtree May 18 #10
There is a danger to considering the autopsy as more accurate than it karynnj May 18 #11
What do people think is in there? "Hiding." Like Podesta emails/Hillary emails and speeches. betsuni May 18 #12
You nailed it. Quiet Em May 18 #13
I don't see a value in making it public SocialDemocrat61 May 18 #20
Don't give a F about any autopsy. The kacekwl May 18 #21
I know why we lost. BannonsLiver May 18 #26
No one wants to have a deep discussion about misogyny JCMach1 May 18 #28
Because any honest assessment is going to show how much race and gender affected the outcome... appmanga May 18 #29
It needs to be released. gulliver May 18 #30
Because the GOPs will know how to use it to defeat us further LuvLoogie May 18 #31
Because they want Kamala to run again choie May 18 #32
Because it never was completed is my guess Stuckinthebush May 18 #34
My guess is it is useless The Revolution May 18 #35
It's very clear what took place. When we don't win in a landslide, ecstatic May 18 #36
#1 Harris has called for the release, and #2 Bluetus May 18 #37
They're afraid it might hurt someone's fee-fees. Mysterian May 18 #39
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