It’s obvious we need to spend a few minutes explaining the business end of modern politics for those who are unaccustomed to the process.
You might know the guy who owns/operates the family Hardware store near you. Or perhaps you are familiar with the generationally owned auto-shop in/around your town. Politics, as a business enterprise, is no different – many families throughout the country are as inherently inside the business as the family who owns the local store.
Additionally, from county to county these families know each other. They see each other, hang out together, meet at various functions and coordinate the various political enterprises that eventually lead up to the state level, and beyond.
In short, they are a network of familiarity, a network of insiders.
They also run the gambit of influence from the Barbour family in Mississippi, to the Prescott/Bush family of Colorado, Texas to Maine. Tight circles of interconnected acquaintances who meet at various times, and then convention together depending on political season. (more…)
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11:30pm We anticipate the need for more than one Super-Saturday election results thread. Hence, we will number them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.
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