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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
I would agree that party must be taken into account when voting, however part of the problem with the "nearly locked in step party line voting" is that they know, in order to be reelected, that they must pander to the extremes of their party because they are the ones who vote in the primaries to a large extent. If more people thought, and voted, independently, especially in the primaries we might be able to break the hold of the Grover Norquist's on the right and the Pelosi's on the left.
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I agree, to a point, but those "independent" candidates mostly just fall in line with the leaders of the party. We've seen it over and over.
Really the only recent examples of challenges to the status quo has been the Tea Party candidates who've won election. Maybe not all of them, but enough to shake the foundations of the Republican establishment.