Amen. I don't buy into the idea that there are all these moderate voters. That's media spin. Most people who may be moderate won't vote anyway because they don't care about anything, and thus that is why they are called moderates (they have no political views).
So all of Kerry's votes were Hard Core Leftists????
I watched a Focus group on C-SPAN over the weekend,,,,an average Freeper would have totally dominated the group....questions were about how they voted and why....frightend the Hell out of me....and they all voted!!!!
My guess is that of the relatively few moderate voters out there, very, very few of them voted for Bush and Republicans. So why should we wring our hands about "backlash" from them? They've already lashed back, as the 'Rats have. The real backlash to worry about, as Bush 41 found out, is the one that might come from those who put you in office in the first place. You don't want to honk them off. Worry about keeping your friends first before trying to make new friends among the enemy.