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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2012, 08:31:33 PM » |
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« Edited: June 01, 2012, 08:33:24 PM by red's wet dream »
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It's also worth noting that "exciting the base" means a lot more to Republicans than Democrats; the Democratic "base" is just urban minority machine politics (who would vote 90% for Yellow Dog (D) ), while the Republicans have an actual *ideological* "base" they have to motivate with red meat (the Democratic ideological base, such as it is, consists mainly of college students and yuppie 20-somethings, who are well-represented on the internet but not really in real life; unions act as a sort of ideological pseudo-base in that they control large blocs of zombie primary voters, but said voters are not typical high-information "base" ones).
So appealing to independents (essentially by throwing their base under the bus and appealing to white suburban 'soccer moms') is relatively more important to Democrats, while appealing to the base is relatively more important to Republicans.
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