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To: Cold Heat

Being elected POTUS means soildifying the base and taking a chunk of the center. The last two elections were down to the wire. As POTUS you govern the whole nation, but the whole nation is never going to elect you.


346 posted on 02/01/2007 12:47:34 AM PST by nepppen
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To: nepppen
Being elected POTUS means soildifying the base and taking a chunk of the center. The last two elections were down to the wire.

Exactly so.....

It is even more dicey today than any time in the written past.

The center is more important to winning then at any time in recent history, yet this political base continues to chew them up and spit them out, burning all the bridges as they go along.

You cannot solidify this base, much less appeal to the center, I fear, and this will guarantee our failure.

Unless something magical occurs, this base is showing every sign that it will not coalesce around any of the announced candidates. The democrats will certainly do so, and that is a fact.

The future may well be written and blind partisans cannot see well into the future, and they distort the past for their own gratification.

I am only trying to point out the obvious. It makes me ill to see what I see.

355 posted on 02/01/2007 6:55:33 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: nepppen
Being elected POTUS means soildifying the base and taking a chunk of the center. The last two elections were down to the wire.

You forgot the last election. If that had been for President we would have a President Hillary right now.

358 posted on 02/01/2007 7:41:01 AM PST by Dave S
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