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In reply to the discussion: Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy? [View all]bigtree
(94,690 posts)18. money in politics is best spent on the grassroots level
...but the DNC is much more than it's chairman, or it's own campaigning (as if they're supposed to be the subject of our political efforts).
The head of the DNC is responsible for a diverse and often disparate interests from Democrats around the nation. They're not supposed to make them selves the subject of elections by amplifying beyond what candidates and elected officials want or need.
DNC provides research, polling, and funding to assist Democratic candidates across the country.
Both the RNC and DNC have been "traditionally dismissed" as merely being "service providers" that "provide assistance to candidates in the form of campaign funding and expertise but otherwise lack political power," Fordham Political Science professor Boris Heersink said in 2018 study of party brands and political national committees. In part that's true, with each committee helping fund their respective candidates on multiple levels, offering IT support, voter enrollment initiatives, and generally serving as a unifying "infrastructure institution" across the party, as the DNC's Amanda Brown Lierman told Teen Vogue.
The committees are also responsible for establishing their respective party platforms, voted on every four years, to help clarify and synchronize candidate messaging across multiple elections.
Perhaps most notably in terms of public output, each national committee is responsible for their party's similarly acronymed Democratic and Republican National Conventions...
https://theweek.com/politics/dnc-rnc-role-elections-party-politics
Both the RNC and DNC have been "traditionally dismissed" as merely being "service providers" that "provide assistance to candidates in the form of campaign funding and expertise but otherwise lack political power," Fordham Political Science professor Boris Heersink said in 2018 study of party brands and political national committees. In part that's true, with each committee helping fund their respective candidates on multiple levels, offering IT support, voter enrollment initiatives, and generally serving as a unifying "infrastructure institution" across the party, as the DNC's Amanda Brown Lierman told Teen Vogue.
The committees are also responsible for establishing their respective party platforms, voted on every four years, to help clarify and synchronize candidate messaging across multiple elections.
Perhaps most notably in terms of public output, each national committee is responsible for their party's similarly acronymed Democratic and Republican National Conventions...
https://theweek.com/politics/dnc-rnc-role-elections-party-politics
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They're all welcome to run for house or senate seats in their respective districts/state
fujiyamasan
Monday
#38
So at least some of your information being inaccurate doesn't make you want to check the rest?
EdmondDantes_
Monday
#27
The autopsy is bound to be inconclusive because there will be differing explanations for why it happened
Quiet Em
Monday
#8
Do you honestly believe there is anything in there that has not already been thoroughly discussed right here on DU?
Quiet Em
Monday
#22
They won't release it because we won't want to believe it, and it will make us angry.
everyonematters
Monday
#9
What do people think is in there? "Hiding." Like Podesta emails/Hillary emails and speeches.
betsuni
Monday
#12