Candidate reliance on national party organizational support has been waning for a couple of decades now. Candidates have started to abandon what was once their most needed support system and biggest cash cow. Reduction in party cohesion, the surge in the power of Political Action Committees, and the new found necessity of gaining the Independent vote are 3 factors that have all led Presidential candidates to sever the political umbilical cord that has tied them to their parties for almost 2 centuries. The simple formulas of political success found in the warm apple pie days of the 20’s, late 40’s, and 50’s are gone. This new age of informational warfare and electronic combat has rendered the major party powerhouses almost obsolete.
Party unity seems to now be a thing of the past. The splintering of the party message into liberal, moderate, or conservative has essentially divided parties so much that there is almost more opposition within a party than there is with the rest of the party community. T
Candidate’s reliance on party backing seems to now be permanently a thing of the past. While debates and speeches may ooze and spout party loyalty, there is nothing loyal about contemporary political races. About the only thing that truly confirms party membership these days is the party listing on voter ballots. America will always remain a two-party system; but their power will never reach the heights it once did unless there is a truly cataclysmic change in the political makeup of the candidates themselves to once again induce party loyalty and reliance. What we have witnessed in political change over the past 2 decades will probably be a major event in the history of this nation forever because parties control the country and the beliefs of those within the party control the candidate; whether strongly, as seen in the past, or weakly, as seen on T.V.
The ultimate goal of most Presidential candidates these days no longer seems to be whether they actually out perform their opponent; but whether they c
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