What benefit are political parties?

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Here is Nick Confessore's article from the New York Times this weekend regarding how McCain's and Obama's apparent nominations is a bit of a rebuke of each party's "establishment" (a term he describes in a historical sense).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10confess.html

Here is First Read's take on the article:

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