The standard by which Democratic candidates are now ordained.
Republican primaries are magnitudes more competitive these days than Democratic ones. Do you know about this thing called the Tea Party? A primary is literally all that most Republican politicians are afraid of these days; they're certainly not afraid of general elections, because they would otherwise not say half of the crazy stuff that they do. Which leads into what is offered when the first quote is questioned:
Tea Partiers that aren't backed by big money astroturf groups or by their own self funding go nowhere.
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