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First rule in politics....YOU DO NOT ANGER YOUR BASE. If the base deserts you you have no party. The BIG TENT idea is good. BUT you do not pull in groups that are the direct opposite of your base. Period. The DEms lost because of a big tent party. When you try to make everyone happy you make no one happy. Do not anger the base.

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The BIG TENT idea is good. BUT you do not pull in groups that are the direct opposite of your base.

The man that knew people, and not parties, was Ronald Reagan. He attracted an idealogical base of conservative people from both parties. The anti-Ross Perot if you will.