Establishment vs non-establishment.

[Confounding]

Try to think beyond this primary.

 

[Agit8r]

What matters is the issues, and electability.

 

[Confounding]

What matters is the issues, and electability.

Assume two candidates are exactly the same on everything but this. Does the distinction matter?

 

[saveliberty]

All other things equal an established person will have a record of doing what they say versus the talk of the nonestablished person.

 

[Agit8r]

What matters is the issues, and electability.

Assume two candidates are exactly the same on everything but this. Does the distinction matter?

To me, it's semantics. Maybe it's used a code of some sort, but I not entirely sure what it means day-to-day.

 

[Confounding]

What matters is the issues, and electability.

Assume two candidates are exactly the same on everything but this. Does the distinction matter?

To me, it's semantics. Maybe it's used a code of some sort, but I not entirely sure what it means day-to-day.

The establishment candidate is simply the candidate the party would like you to vote for. It's the person with the connections to and funding from the status quo. The non-establishment candidate is whoever is trying to disrupt the party's plan and steer it towards their own vision instead.

 

[Agit8r]

What matters is the issues, and electability.

Assume two candidates are exactly the same on everything but this. Does the distinction matter?

To me, it's semantics. Maybe it's used a code of some sort, but I not entirely sure what it means day-to-day.

The establishment candidate is simply the candidate the party would like you to vote for. It's the person with the connections to and funding from the status quo. The non-establishment candidate is whoever is trying to disrupt the party's plan and steer it towards their own vision instead.

When there is a "big tent" party, there are bound to be factions within it, and one may be dominant for a number of years and then fade. That is increasingly the case with the DLC type democrat today.

Democratic Leadership Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The factions are nonetheless representative of equally valid parts of the party.

 

[Agit8r]

Just another point of clarification; is there any merit in being more mainstream, at the expense of being part of a party's "establishment"?

I mean setting aside the example of John Kasich, who is both, and getting slaughtered in the primaries....