Reply #14: Tom, this paragraph so impressed me. Very pertinent.

[madfloridian]

This is a whole other response to multiple candidates in primaries...and it very much impressed me.

"The other story was about a new State DFA backed Party Chair, I think in Maryland, and how now there are many contested primaries in the Democratic Party with multiple people running. When confronted with this as a possible problem by someone else in the Party, this Party Chair responded to the effect: "I wish there were more Democratic candidates running. For every person who decides to get involved on that level they have circles of people who they touch and reach out to to get involved in politics, to pull them into the process. We need to expand participation in electoral politics, not stifle it. That's what happens when communities get energized behind candidates."

Now that is a really inclusive statement.