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In reply to the discussion: And now, the Senate. Which Democrats actually won and lost? [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)But, the Democratic Party always had its conservative wing, dating all the way back to when Stephen Douglas ran against Lincoln. And the conservative wing always struggled for power within the Party.
If you look at the DLC website, most of the founding members of the DLC were Southerners with Presidential aspirations, Lieberman being the stand out exception. He had Presidential aspirations, too, but, of course, he was not a Southerner.
People still don't have time for politics. Many are working two and three jobs.
And, if they did spend time trying to find out about politics, they'd find the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth hard to come by. Certainly, media doesn't tell them. All Democrats are most often referred to as liberals. You don't hear a whole lot about there being more than one kind of Democrat. I didn't know a thing about it myself until I started reading on leftist message boards.