The pro-gun wing is as big or bigger than the pro-life is.
That is the reason I think Romney or Rooty nomination = Landslide loss in Nov.
But the pro-gun wing is not necessarily united, at least as much as the pro-life wing.
They’re against Giuliani and Romney but in general the pro-gun wing tends to be more “big picture” than the one-issue pro-lifers.
These percentages of non-Hillary votes were overwhelmingly against her....showing negatives across the board. Do you happen to have the resulting percentage votes in all the campaigns so far?
Maybe so. However, approximately 1/2 of gun owners are in fact registered democrats, and continue to pull the D lever election time, out of habit. I suspect the actual "gun lobby" activists are but a minor percent of the number of americans with firearms.
Being vocal helps, every day.
I think most reasonable pro-lifers will see that Mitt is campaigning against Roe v. Wade and I think most reasonable pro-lifers will support Mitt in November.
That is the reason I think Romney or Rooty nomination = Landslide loss in Nov.
I have a very good path into the grass roots activists in the NRA across the South (that's apparently an actual, official position in the NRA political action group) and they seem to be settling around Romney as there best bet in the field that's left. They hate McCain with a passion, largely over McCain/Feingold, because it was targeted at them, among others. They think Huckabee is cuckoo or all too easily portrayed as cuckoo.
The folks in more absolutist groups, like some of those in GOA, are trending towards Ron Paul, of all things.