New Republic baselessly asserted Dem "problem": "[L]iberal elites are disproportionately powerful in primaries ... have nominated a succession of losers"

SUMMARY: New Republic special correspondent Thomas B. Edsall claimed that "the wing of the [Democratic] party that saw no strategic error in nominating McGovern, Dukakis, and Kerry still controls the primaries." In fact, exit polling from the 2000 and 2004 New Hampshire primaries and entrance polling from the 2000 and 2004 Iowa caucuses do not indicate that John Kerry and Al Gore performed better among "liberal elites."

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