[jimbo123]

So are you saying Independent voters and Reagan Democrats will vote for Hillary instead?

[TitansAFC]

---"So are you saying Independent voters and Reagan Democrats will vote for Hillary instead?"---

I'm saying not enough of them are going to come over to Rudy, and just Rudy, to make up the losses on the right. Rudy isn't exactly Reagan, and the Socially Conservative union types who loved Reagan aren't going to be much pleased with a Free-Trading Social Liberal who hates guns.

Remember, Bush was able to lose Independents by a whopping 9% and still win the Presidency, just by turning out the base. That's a severe thumping by the Independents. Which leads one to ask: If you can lose the Indies in a landslide and still win by unifying the base, why adopt a strategy that severs a good chunk of the base in favor of trying to win over the Independents?

To win the base, you just have to be consistent on the issues that matter; to win the independents, you have to be an auctioneer with an open wallet.