Once again, the GOP is split and, like 1912, a governor from New Jersey may be able to exploit that rift – this time maneuvering from within in the party to affect a much-needed shift toward those coveted "undecided voters" occupying the political center.
MR: Well, not only that, but there's a presidential election that certain corporate entities aligned with certain political parties need to affect.
Mr. Fang was considered too valuable to allow party censure to affect his work, and he continued to rise in academia.
"The Democratic Party has long been a champion for working and middle class families and this year's election is far too important to allow party in-fighting to affect our ability to help them.
To "rig" an election, it would take cooperation from multiple local officials, of both parties, in multiple counties, to affect just one state.
It began as a proposal to protect the privacy of people's records, but ruling-party lawmakers expanded it to affect media reporting, prompting a public backlash.
Recently, both Perez and the State Party intervened in local party delegate elections, endeavoring to affect the outcome that is usually left to the locals to decide.
On Tuesday, Brett Shumate, a Justice Department lawyer, asked that should Furman rule against the Trump administration, he limit the scope of his remedy only to affect the parties that would be injured and allow the Commerce Department to decide how to implement it.
Establishment figures from previous Republican administrations who have found themselves transformed into voices of caution and moderation, such as Mr Gerson, most of the writers at National Review Online, and even (mutatis mutandi) Karl Rove, appear to have little ability to affect the party's course anymore.
