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The NY Dems must be horribly dysfunctional if they could not find even a fraction of this info before the election.

The NY Repubs must be horribly dysfunctional if they could not find a candidate better than this. This is who they want representing them? You'd think the party machine would follow up on references before letting someone so dishonest represent them.

Republicans have never been very good at machine-politics; their voters largely believe it shouldn't exist, but it has to exist in order for them to win, so you get sausage-makers like McConnell (who everybody hates) running everything.

What? They seem much better at it than Dems.

Definitely not. They're mostly ineffective at politicking and at political wars in general.

Nah, Democrats are really good at party discipline. "Vote blue, no matter who" was only recently said out loud, but has been effectively the "You're not one of...them...right?" vote for a long time. Republican voters tend to disavow the party, because the social conservatives and the libertarians and the genuine rich-and-don't-care establishment can never agree.

Have you ever followed politics on Long Island?

DCCC site calls out the personal finance and ponzi stuff on August 24: https://web.archive.org/web/20220824162022/ttps://dccc.org/t...

Word is that state party officials tried to get press to investigate, but no one was interested at the time.

Institutions only perform as well as they have to. For the NY democratic party (or any other party in a similarly lopsided state) the bar is not exactly high due to the makeup of the state.

Parties in states where the elections are routinely more contested tend to spend more effort vetting their candidates and running candidates that aren't trash.

That makes sense in theory...but the trash candidate here was a Republican, in a Democratic-majority state. It would be logical for Democrats to be complacent about candidate quality in this situtation. Republicans should be trying to run high-quality candidates because they're the underdog and need to work harder to win.

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