So far, 14 Republicans are running for president, and five Democrats are. The NYT lists two more probable Republican candidates and no more probable Democratic candidates.
Why are so many more Republicans running than Democrats? My original guess was that it’s mostly that right-wing media provides more platforms, but there’s only a few real Fox/radio creations in there — Carson, Huckabee, and Santorum (and it may even be a stretch to call the last two Fox/radio creations). Is it the lack of a real frontrunner among Republicans?
I’m sure that the media will claim it’s because of greater ideological diversity among Republicans, the free market of ideas is strong! There may even be some truth to this: even the hippie Sanders’ ideas aren’t that far from the center IMHO, I mean he doesn’t perform exorcisms or believe all Mexicans are rapsts. If he gets the nomination, the media will caricature him as a left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographer, but I bet if you put many of his proposal to a plebiscite, they’d do fine.
In the final analysis, this idiotic bit of Both Sides Do it is more unfair to the Republican party than anyone else: