re: #51 Schroedinger’s Dog

The DNC needs to do some serious work on the brand and then worry about candidates.

Well, in this case, won’t the “brand” be built on popular figures?

Obama has brought a surety to the Democratic party, but a bit of stability at the top doesn’t mean that at the local level more supporters show up.

Where I live, the local politics is carefully managed to divy up the districts, so that I simultaneously live in a district designed for Republicans in one chamber of the legislature, and one district designed for Democrats in the other chamber.

Weird, but true. It’s an anomaly of how bicameral California system works.

When living in a society with such a tightly engineered political system, I just look at Bernie’s assertion that he can change the political system with quite a bit of skepticism.

Even here in California, it is not clear to me who can pick up the Democratic reins once our current governor leaves stage left.