There Is Hard Data That Shows That a Centrist Democrat Would Be a Losing Candidate
12th February 2020
The Republican Party has earned a reputation as the anti-science, anti-fact party — understandably, perhaps, given the GOP’s policy of ignoring the evidence for global climate change and insisting on the efficacy of supply-side economics, despite all the research to the contrary. Yet ironically, it is now the Democratic Party that is wantonly ignoring mounds of social science data that suggests that promoting centrist candidates is a bad, losing strategy when it comes to winning elections. As the Democratic establishment and its pundit class starts to line up behind the centrist nominees for president — like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg — the party’s head-in-the-sand attitude is especially troubling.
This is Voice of the Crust Salon so it’s undoubtedly biased. But you might find it interesting.