What I’ve Been Saying
I said this over five years ago:
Republicans understand that voters in “the base” turn out if motivated, and the undecideds in the middle do not. Consequently, they tailor their electoral strategy to pumping up their base to maximize that turnout, and they don’t worry about the middle all that much because they’re proportionally less of a factor. The Democrats, on the other hand, repeatedly throw their base under the bus in pursuit of those fickle undecideds who probably aren’t voting anyway.
From Nate Silver’s post on why Republicans are crazy (answer: because unlike the Democrats, they’re playing to their base):
Tell me again why alienating your base in pursuit of independents is a good electoral strategy?
(This is, of course, assuming that this actually is the Democrats’ electoral strategy and not just an excuse for pursuing conservative policy goals on behalf of their corporate benefactors. But as excuses go, it’s a pretty transparently ridiculous one.)
1 comment July 8th, 2011 at 07:36am Posted by Eli
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