If they lose so much as one or two measly percentage points, they are goners.
This does not bode well for their political future.
This is why they are so desperate this election. The coalition of special interests and yellow dog democrats is slipping apart.
And the more extreme members have gone communist/socialist/green. Even with Nader/Greens in the 2000 race, if the other communist/socialist voters had gone Democrat in Florida, Gore would have won.
The Catholic vote can't go solidly Dem with issues like same sex marriage and abortion in the mix. Jews realize who will and won't stand with them on Israel; let alone the international war on terror (Islamofascist terror; does anyone think that we are referring to the IRA when the WOT is mentioned? It is under the umbrella of terrorism but hardly the most pressing terrorist threat).