Editorial Philosophy

The Democratic Strategist will be clearly focused on developing political strategies for promoting Democratic candidates and issues. It will be proudly and avowedly partisan, aimed at achieving an enduring Democratic majority.

The Democratic Strategist will be firmly and insistently based on facts and data. It will seek strategies rooted in empirical research from the fields of public opinion research, political demography and other social sciences and will avoid empty rhetoric and abstract theorizing.

The Democratic Strategist will be emphatically open to all sectors and currents of opinion within the Democratic Party. It will actively seek to be a meeting ground for both centrists and populists, readers of The Nation and The New Republic, professional political consultants, grassroots activists and every significant candidate and perspective within the Democratic Party. The Democratic Strategist will strongly encourage discussion and dialog and will not limit itself to any specific current of thought or point of view within the Democratic community.

The Democratic Strategist is an independent publication whose editorial polices are solely determined by the collaborative decision-making of its editors. It is not affiliated with or supported by the Democratic Party or any of its affiliated organizations nor by any other social or political group, institution or organization.

The editors' participation in the editorial management of The Democratic Strategist and the opinions they express in their role as editors is entirely in their capacity as private individuals and is strictly separate from any and all of their other institutional connections and commitments. The institutions and organizations with whom the editors are affiliated bear absolutely no responsibility for the content or opinions expressed in the publication.