I meant nationwide scale [the electorate], and not the confines of FR. FR is not the electorate, but rather a small and rather unrepresentative slice of it. The same could be said of the swift boat veterans - but they shock therapied potential kerryacs on sufficiently massive scale, and that's what counted for their effectiveness. And even then, kerry lost by mere 4 million votes, and it all boiled down to a single state, thus the effectiveness of swift boat veterans was rather limited.
No problem, I agree that FR is a small piece of the puzzle if you will and as you mentioned not perhaps a good representation for the nation as a whole. which makes me chuckle when I see some here still slinging hash for moderates like its going out of style. the last election and its results should have served notice to those folks.
not sure why all the effort, seems wasted imo, as most here are set in their ways and beliefs anyway.
well. it's been fun, time to turn in.. G'nite