[Spktyr]

Hm, wasn’t it the moderates who managed, ran, and planned the entire 08 presidential campaign, promising they could deliver the centrists and independents?

How’d that work out again?

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Before you try to appeal to indies and the moderates, first you MUST get the support of the base. Failure to do so is like building a house without a foundation - it doesn’t stay standing for long.

[gusopol3]

Money and time spent in states where there were Republican Senate seats in jeopardy might have at least been of some benefit, rather than PA. A huuuuge miscalculation.

[org.whodat]

Hm, wasn’t it the moderates who managed, ran, and planned the entire 08 presidential campaign, promising they could deliver the centrists and independents?

How’d that work out again?

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Before you try to appeal to indies and the moderates, first you MUST get the support of the base. Failure to do so is like building a house without a foundation - it doesn’t stay standing for long.

That pretty well covers it.

[RU88]

Michael Smerconish is a tool who is so breathtakingly full of himself it's enough to make one puke. (By the way for all of you in D.C. land, you'll have the pleasure to listen to “the tool” every morning starting Monday) I've lived in Bucks County (just north of Philadelphia) for the last 10 plus years so I do have some things I'd like to add in the way of analysis. The suburbs which ring Philadelphia had two demographics that worked against McCain from the start: 1) a very high percentage, in relation to the rest of the country, of union households in areas that directly abut Philadelphia; and 2) an increasingly gentrified population of transplants from New Jersey and New York in the outer suburbs trying to beat the confiscatory taxes in NJ and NY (not that PA is much better). It's hard to imagine McCain winning either of these two groups. When you factor in the 95% black vote along with union members and libs it's hard to get a majority. This area used to be much more conservative 10 years ago. I blame it on the transplants more than anything else. If they had only left their liberal politics with them when they left we'd all be the better for it. Unfortunately, that has not happened and these areas are paying a political, and social price for it.