No matter how much he sells out on gun issues, Simon won't get any the black vote, much of the Hispanic vote, any appreciable share of the Los Angeles or San Fran vote, any appreciable share of the gay or lesbian vote, or any appreciable share of the Jewish vote. But any sellout at all on guns - or on other social issues - will cost him all of the social conservatives and much of the total non-urban European-American vote he's depending on for any chance of victory; they won't vote Davis - instead, they just won't vote for anyone.
The "John Saxon" essays - by an angry blue-collar Southerner, for Red Nation people like him!