Politics: August 2015 Archives

Democratic Blues - Jeff Greenfield - POLITICO Magazine

It's rare that something makes the Republican Party look competent by comparison:

"'I would be the first to concede that we had failed to build a sturdy infrastructure for Democrats from the bottom up,' David Axelrod says. 'The Republican Party and supporting oligarchs like the Koch Brothers have invested exponentially more time and resources into building electoral strength from the grass roots up, concentrating on down ballot state offices, legislative races--even school board and City Council races. This has helped turn more than a few legislatures from blue to red, and also had created a larger pool of potential candidates for higher offices in the future.'"