[cripplecreek]

I quit listening to Medved quite a while ago when it became apparent he prefers some kind of system where only party members vote and they vote the way they're told.

[red meat conservative]

I think that we need to stop expending so many resources during political campaigns courting "minority" votes. They absolutely won't vote for us and even after all the effort we only move the bar a few percentage points.

On the flip side of the coin, by pandering to such groups like illegal immigrants we wind up losing those that have been known to easily vote for us in the past, i.e. the Reagan coalition. This includes rural voters, blue collar voters, white catholic voters, and even suburban women. A platform of safety and security, capitalism and traditional values might lose a small number of voters that are unlikely to vote R anyway. But the reverse will wind up causing all of the others who are larger in numer and more apt to voting R, to disert the party. (2006 election)

[penowa]

"I quit listening to Medved quite a while ago when it became apparent he prefers some kind of system where only party members vote and they vote the way they're told."

Why would you expect anything else from a school chum of the Clintons?