[tacticalogic]

The majority party seems to take things to a point where enough voters get off and decide they want to go the other way.

At that point, they seem to want to point at the opposing party and say "You better not leave us. If you do, look what you'll end up with!". It doesn't seem to work, and they leave anyway. Might've been better of to stop and listen to them.

[WOSG]

Ah, my comment was directed at the fact that parties pander to their *core* voters at the expense of the swing voters and *that* tends to make them lose the 'majority'.

Here we have a different situation - pandering not to the core, but to the 'center' to win the general election, but there is an analogy ... Clintonism won the 1996 election with triangulation, but enough of the leftists were unhappy they abandoned the democrats and went green in 2000. even though gore ran left, nader ran lefter - end result : President Bush. If Bush continues to annoy conservatives so much there is a 4% hard-right vote that refuses to vote Republican in say 2008, we may yet see President Hillary.

The worm turns.