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18. money in politics is best spent on the grassroots level
Mon May 18, 2026, 11:24 AM
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...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

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Nominate a non-partisan for president, he/she will win in a landslide gab13by13 Monday #1
Lol... no. n/t demmiblue Monday #2
What? Happy Hoosier Monday #4
Ludicrous BannonsLiver Monday #24
They're all welcome to run for house or senate seats in their respective districts/state fujiyamasan Monday #38
It's good to release it and study it well Polybius Monday #3
Maybe it shows the Republicans stole the 2024 election Chasstev365 Monday #5
Michigan doesn't have provisions for a automatic recount in a national election Kaleva Monday #7
Well, that's Michigan. Chasstev365 Monday #15
So at least some of your information being inaccurate doesn't make you want to check the rest? EdmondDantes_ Monday #27
One of the things I love about DU are the fact checkers Kaleva Monday #33
Honestly, the DNC is a hot mess. Happy Hoosier Monday #6
It's an opinion piece by someone named Norman Solomon bigtree Monday #14
I heard Martin's interview with Jon Favreau.... Happy Hoosier Monday #16
money in politics is best spent on the grassroots level bigtree Monday #18
So, how do we win national elections? Kid Berwyn Monday #19
show up and vote for the Democratic nominee bigtree Monday #23
Is that in the autopsy? Kid Berwyn Monday #25
The autopsy is bound to be inconclusive because there will be differing explanations for why it happened Quiet Em Monday #8
Then why did Martin say he WOULD release the whole report? Happy Hoosier Monday #17
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
navelgazing nonsense bigtree Monday #10
There is a danger to considering the autopsy as more accurate than it karynnj Monday #11
What do people think is in there? "Hiding." Like Podesta emails/Hillary emails and speeches. betsuni Monday #12
You nailed it. Quiet Em Monday #13
I don't see a value in making it public SocialDemocrat61 Monday #20
Don't give a F about any autopsy. The kacekwl Monday #21
I know why we lost. BannonsLiver Monday #26
No one wants to have a deep discussion about misogyny JCMach1 Monday #28
Because any honest assessment is going to show how much race and gender affected the outcome... appmanga Monday #29
It needs to be released. gulliver Monday #30
Because the GOPs will know how to use it to defeat us further LuvLoogie Monday #31
Because they want Kamala to run again choie Monday #32
Because it never was completed is my guess Stuckinthebush Monday #34
My guess is it is useless The Revolution Monday #35
It's very clear what took place. When we don't win in a landslide, ecstatic Monday #36
#1 Harris has called for the release, and #2 Bluetus Monday #37
They're afraid it might hurt someone's fee-fees. Mysterian Monday #39
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