[xzins]

>> as reality closes in, the Goode 5% has shrunk << Moreover, notice this: The cross-tabs from McLaughlin say Goode draws one percent of the Dems, one percent of the indies and zero percent of the GOPers!

Yes, I was hoping that someone (the Constitution Party) was serious about trying to build a conservative party.

They have not made the effort as near as I can tell.

They would have done far, far better -- if their intention were party-building -- to run Goode for his old congressional seat in Virginia. He would have been a real contender, and they might have ended up at last with a representative actually at the national level.

I'm disillusioned with them.

[Yashcheritsiy]

This was a factor that helped make my transition to supporting Romney/Ryan easier (the prime factor was the distinct difference in response to Libya).

Frankly, in this election, there is simply going to be no support for drawing support away from Obama’s opponents, other than for a very few die hards.

I’d LOVE it if the GOP could be radically restructured to reflect the conservatism of its rank-and-file, or else deconstructed and rebuilt into a new Party, a al the Whigs in the late 1850s. If this is to happen, it will have to wait until after Nov. 6.