[Tamzee]

What a load of crap!

Elegant command of the language you have there ;-)

The country is still approximately HALF liberal/Democrat... the right has nowhere near a good majority yet, our work is simply not yet done. In addition, the conservatives only make up a PORTION of the GOP, there is a large portion that is yet centrist and they also have a vote according to the Constitution. This leaves us in a rather SMALL segment of the entire population and our Constitution is written in such a way as to PREVENT us from pulling a coup and running the entire country as we wish. Perhaps you missed it but America went radically to the left in the last couple of decades?

I for one appreciate any and all efforts you have made dragging this country back to the right. However, now is a pretty poor moment in our history for conservatives to have a temper tantrum because the job isn't finished.

[Fledermaus]

The country is still approximately HALF liberal/Democrat...

Prove it.

The polls that are well done and scientific have it as 30% Dem, 33% GOP and 35% Independent with 2% that don't know what planet they live on.

[185JHP]

You've pointed out the problem - votes aren't weighted, with higher values given to the votes of "cleaner and purer" voters. If a candidate doesn't get slightly more than half the squishy, vacillating middle, it's over. Absent his nuttiness when he got old, I'd love a Goldwater type in the WH. The problem is, he wasn't, and wouldn't now be, electable.