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In reply to the discussion: Who will choose our 2016 nominee? [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)A couple of things ...
First, if there's a "problem" here, it's the Democratic Party's problem, not mine.
Second, I see no evidence that Barack Obama's fundraising machine has evaporated. Quite the contrary--when I see President Obama backing things like the TPP (an attempt to protect the economic interests of big, American film, music, television, and agricultural corporations), I see a politician trying to preserve his fundraising machine by catering to the interests of his donors. The same goes for his tepid response to Wall Street malfeasance. He's preserving his donation machine by catering to the moneyed people who fund that machine. I don't think his machine has gone away. Quite the contrary, I see him trying to maintain it. If he has done so successfully (and he may have), he has a powerful tool that he can hand to a politician of his choosing. Whomever inherits his well-preserved machine, I argue, will win the 2016 nomination.
-Laelth