Plus, many hangers on who had careers based on Democrat patronage jobs.
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I think that’s how Democrats and liberals control so much power in states like California, where conservatives actually outnumber liberals by a couple of percentage points. They are good at doling out the money and favors.
With Democrats, politics and party is all about money, if they don’t have to work for it, so much the better. Since the advent of public employees unions, government workers have become overwhelmingly Democrat.