Turns out that while I was writing yesterday’s essay about substance in the presidential campaign, John Baer was publishing a commentary in the Daily News wondering why the two candidates he considers to have the most substantial policy experience – Michael Nutter and Dwight Evans – are currently trailing in the polls. The answers he cites are the kind of personality-based rationales that show that winning an election doesn’t necessarily entail support for the winner’s policy agenda.
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