(10-08-2024, 11:34 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(10-08-2024, 01:37 PM)mikesez Wrote: A party does not offer its candidates up as sacrificial lambs.  At least not for President.  That's my point.  There are people who might avoid running because they think their party doesn't have enough of a chance that year, but probably less people think that way after 1992.  Even so, those people don't hope for their candidate to lose.  They still want their party's candidate to win.

That would be true if there were 2 parties. There isn't, so as long as the winner is controlled, the uniparty and their controllers don't care which side wins.

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There are indeed donors who don't really care who wins.  Donors like this typically make small donations to both parties.  These are typically large, multi-state corporations.  For instance, Comcast. They need to have relationships at the state and local level as well as the national level so they carefully donate to the party they think will win at each level.  When they're not sure, they donate to both.  United Healthcare does the same.

But both parties get most of their money from donors who do care, and who only donate to their party.

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