[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Every election is a base election. There's no such thing as moderate or undecided voters. It is a construct created by the Left to water down support for Republicans, and force Republicans to move left where they'd ultimately lose due to low turnout.

Independent voters are bandwagon voters. They are witnessing all of this enthusiasm for Trump - the parades, the rallies, etc. and many of them will vote for Trump.

If every Republican would have just ran as constitutional conservatives, there wouldn't be a Democrat Party today. There would be a conservative Christian wing of the GOP vs the populist libertarian wing.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That was the entire purpose of the Bush League Republicans (Democrats in R jerseys).

Capture the other party and only give the voters Democrat-lite alternatives.