Reply #62: This may at least partially answer your very good question.

[John Q. Citizen]

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Also, I would add to that the fact that Obama's whole campaign has been exceedingly grass-roots driven. If he's elected he's going to owe the grass-roots almost as much as he owes his big money backers and his brain trust,

That will be a big change for the Dems, who for years have taken the grass-roots more or less for granted.

And one more reason. An Obama victory will severly diminish the influence of the DLC as an organization and also diminish it's individual members influence.

Sometimes you have to take what you can get.