Wednesday 8 May 2013

How powerful are US parties?

Good example here of how parties have less power over politicians in US (although this wasn't a Congressional election)


He won in spite of the Republican party withdrawing funding for his campaign, embarrassed by the transgressions and apparently believing he was not going to win. But angry local Republicans stepped in to fill the gap.

http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/may/08/mark-sanford-south-carolina-election

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