Which Party has a bigger seperation between its base and party elites?

[ElectionsGuy]

Meaning the politicians, lobbyists, special interests, vs. the voters and activists themselves. I'm going with Republican Party.

[Sumner 1868]

Definitely the Democratic Party, as has been painfully clear during this administration.

[ElectionsGuy]

Definitely the Democratic Party, as has been painfully clear during this administration.

If Democrats are upset with Obama than they must have been REALLY upset with Clinton.

[Sumner 1868]

Definitely the Democratic Party, as has been painfully clear during this administration.

If Democrats are upset with Obama than they must have been REALLY upset with Clinton.

There's a reason why Nader won 2 million votes in 2000. And why voter turnout went from it's highest since Watergate in 1992 to it's lowest ever in 1996.

[IceSpear]

Kind of both simultaneously.

As a poll watcher, I can say the answer is the Republican Party. Dems tend to approve of their congressional leaders, Reps tend not to. Dems tend to have a more favorable opinion of their own party than Reps have of theirs.

However, in terms of actual policy, the Republican party elites tend to be staunchly right wing on most things (just like their base, with the exception of some social issue disagreements). However, Democratic party elites tend to be more centrist as a whole than the voters that elected them.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The Democrats, by far.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Ideologically, definitely the Democrats. The Republican gap isn't so much with policy (they conform to a lot of ridiculous demands just for the sake of the ideology) but some sort of gap with being underrepresented by the Religious Right. Yet they will continue voting anyway. They're the answer if you don't consider the Occupy/Daily Kos crowd to be Democrats, but we know what their preference is since they know revolution is not realistic.

[Ban my account ffs!]

The Democrats for sure.  Republicans are much better at falling in line.  Like a pack of dogs.  Just show you're alpha and they will lay on their backs and pee on themselves in deference.

Democrats are like a hybrid of a murder of crows and a clowder of cats...with the ghost of Jim Stockdale cawing and meowing 'who am i...why am i here?'

[Maxwell]

I'd say Democrats, but the Republican base sure has it's way of feeling disenfranchised.

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"Democratic" elites are pushing TPP for crying out loud. The answer is obvious.