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« on: August 29, 2014, 11:16:16 PM »

I think in reality, the democrats. It seems that the GOP is more diverse with its fighting within its own circles, but the D's have a bigger coalition. All Republicans seems to have the same rhetoric, values, beliefs to me. Maybe Rick Santorum to Rand Paul is the biggest stretch you can get. But the Dems compromise groups of people from old democrats in Appalachia to staunch progressive, anti-war, anti-establishment activists in California.
There aren't many Coal Country Democrats left though, even if there are many Southern Conservatives who claim to be Democrats. 

I would go with the Republicans being more diverse, at least amongst its voters in Presidential elections on social issues. How else do you get an Evangelical wave (though it was more likely that if you replaced Obamacare with Iraq, you get 2012) in 2004 where the top of ticket's voters were one third pro-choice?
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2014, 05:02:15 PM »

Probably still democrats.  Latte-liberals and low income voters have almost nothing in common for the most part.

Business people and christian conservatives usually share some values with national defense, patriotism, etc., even if they split on gay marriage and abortion.

You say that as if Democrats are stateless in the country they born and raised in.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2014, 12:06:39 PM »
« Edited: September 02, 2014, 12:19:17 PM by MooMooMoo »

Presently and down the road, the success of Democrats is to make sure they all vote (2008,2012) and the success of Republicans is to make just enough moderate minorities vote for them in Ohio, Florida or Colorado (2002, 2004, 1994) or that Democrats don't vote (2000, 2010).

In 1998 the Democrats simply didn't lose and in 2006, the Republicans didn't vote.

But this is about the effects of the demography and the OP didn't want this to be a discussion about demography.

The question is "Which party has the strangest bedfellows in terms of policy?"

With the Democrats, I don't see how a fast track to collective bargaining is ideologically inconsistent with allowing civil marriage to be divorced from parochial marriage or how unharassed access to reproductive health is inconsistent with  universal health care  based on applying a system of  subsidies, regulations and standardized communication protocols to the medical industry and current existing social programs....you get the picture.

On the other hand, I can see the inconsistencies with a new social program to dissuade fetuses from being aborted to a policy that increases the consumer's cost of child care. Then again, it is not inconsistent if this set of policies is looked at in the frame of zealously promoting a particular national identity as the sole form of nationhood and  social cohesion in our society.
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