More Clymer
Following Adam Clymer’s surprisingly unbiased look at the GOP’s anticipation of majority status, he’s got a follow-up piece on the incoherence of the Democrats:
As Peter Hart, a veteran Democratic pollster, put it: “My biggest problem with the Democratic Party is we think tactically and not strategically - one election at a time.” Mr. Hart said, “We take the issue we can exploit, but we don’t take the party and say this is what we are about.”
There’s a reason for that, of course. Democrats think tactically because they have to. When Democrats tell voters “what they’re about,” they get swept out of office in mammoth landslides.