[edge919]

Republicans won an historical landslide. How many of the candidates ran on birtherism? None. The truth is, there were a couple that got branded with the birtherism label, but immediately took steps to publicly distance themselves from the issue. They wanted nothing to do with it.

How exactly have Democrats benefited from focusing on the so-called birth issue?? You're not looking at the whole picture. Remember, I said it's not a winning issue.

[Tex-Con-Man]

In the battle for the election-deciding, ill-informed independents, democrats often successfully employ the “don't vote for the crazy nutters on the right” strategy.

Republicans avoided the issue precisely because, to embrace it would have helped the democrats.

So yes, democrats would have benefited from birtherism had the Republicans run on the issue.