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You win by increasing your appeal to the moderates and independants. Alienating the base is meaningless if you can't get the idependant voter and moderate voter to vote for you. The base will stay solid or stay home. So what if they stay home It's not about individual votes its about winning states and we have certain states regardless how the base feels we need to make inroads into the Blue states and we can only do that by creating the impression that we are not going to burden them with religiously inspired law. Trust me the main power of the Democratic party is the power to hold the fear of the religious right in this country over the secular left.

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Are you doing the same math I am? Or is this the Planet Morgtorg? The Democrats ARE GOING TO POLL CONSISTENTLY IN THE 40% RANGE THE REST OF OUR NATURAL LIVES. Get used to it. That means you need to have AT LEAST 15% of the independent vote. HOWEVER, you could get 25% or even 30% of the independent voters and STILL NOT WIN BECAUSE 35% of the electorate THAT WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR YOU, were turned off because of your anti-religious rhetoric. YOUR theory will lead to a Hillary Presidency MUCH MUCH quicker, than any one of the possible GOP contenders playing to their base.