The GOP didn't write anyone off. These voters wrote themselves off.
The GOP didn't write anyone off. These voters wrote themselves off.
Not even a good dodge, when you earlier said "for those who left the GOP, their opinion means absolutely nothing concerning the GOP."
Kerry and Gore's percentages of the popular vote in 2004 qand 2000 were within a point of Clinton's in 1996. The reason President Bush won these most recent elections is because many Perot voters came home to the GOP. You think Karl Rove and President Bush didn't want and cultivate those votes?