[The Anti-One]

I'll grant that there are a lot of conservatives out there, but the notion that conservatives have enough numbers to "overwhelm" 0 in 2012 is ludicrous.

Obviously you've never heard of Ronald Reagan and how he won by huge landslides because he was smart enough to appeal to the vast majority of Conservatives regardless their party.

But why let a little history get in the way of a perfectly good fantasy eh?

[Emile]

The demographics and the landscape are a lot different now than in 1980 or 1984. There are a lot more households that are net recipients of government programs (meaning more benes received than taxes paid, and now approaching 50% of all households) than there were in the eighties. To realistically think that these people will vote for any Republican in large numbers is, as you term it, a "fantasy". Face it, half our voting population is just fine with socialism -- that wasn't the case in the time of Reagan.

Add to this the opportunities for fraud presented by the presence of millions of undocumented illegals and the absence of enforceable ID requirements in many states, MSM acting as the publicity arm of the Dem Party, as well as the intimidation, chicanery and outright election theft at which Dems are much more accomplished, and the organizational advantages being built by 0, and I believe that Republicans will always face an uphill struggle on the national level in the future -- even if they somehow manage to get their act together. In fact, I'll gladly buy you dinner at a restaurant of your choosing if a Republican ever again wins a presidential election by anything close to Reaganesque landslides.