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What the Republicans need most is IDEOLOGICAL PURITY, not merely winning races!
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The Party and the Republican Party are the same. I suppose you could differentiate them by saying the TP is FAR RIGHT and the Republicans are somewhat moderate.
I guess all that gerrymandering wasn’t such a hot idea after all, at least from the perspective of “mainstream” Republicans. They created whole congressional districts full of fruit loops, and now they’re surprised when they vote as such.
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No, you got it correct the first time. Today, there is very little policy difference between “tea partiers” and “establishment” republicans, and very minor differences between tactics.
What this does do, however, is create fear in nearly every republican, establishment or otherwise. Cantor was the leader of the “young guns” and was seen as the leader of the TP movement immediately after the 2010 elections. It quickly became clear that nobody could lead that caucus.
But for someone like Cantor to be primaried is a huge signal that there is a lot of chaos injected into the system now. No seat is safe from the vagrancies of the mob rule mentality infused in the republican base.
And it also indicates that republican campaigns are still suffering from wearing rose colored glasses. Cantor’s internal polling had him up by 30 points…he lost by 12. How in the world are you polls off THAT bad…42 points in the opposite direction for a single congressional district??
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GOP appeals to single issue voters led to this takeover by single minded dolts. LBJ was wise enough to say “Let the Republicans have 'em.”
peace.
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McLaughlin & Associates are awful pollsters. Solid proof here.
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The only terrible backlash House Republicans should fear from their race to the right is a more intense Democratic GOTV effort in competitive districts. In competitive districts however, the Republican is less likely to be a hard-righter.
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Agreed. But my point was more aimed at the fact that republicans still haven’t figured out the micro targeting methods of identifying voters yet. Sure, everybody is going to be off base occasionally, but we are talking about a 40+ point dependency. Thats not polling, that’s reading the license plates off of cars you really like in the parking lot and submitting them as numbers.