What swayed the election, was the high numbers of Independent/Swing voters who turned out. They are moderates but lean Liberal. Very few elections were lost because the Republican was not conservative enough. The opposite is true. (Source: American Research Group & Pew research, non partisan) The results were taken from actual voter statistics and were not an exit poll.
Right. The republicans spent 2006 running away from conservatism because they thought they had to appeal to the "centrists" to get elected.
and contrary to some opinion, the conservatives came out and voted anyway, because we did see that we needed to elect republicans.
But in SPITE of conservatives coming out, the strategy of running to the center did not win us the independent votes.
For some odd reason, some have the idea that running even MORE to the left is the key.
Conservatives, having done their job in 2006 because we had no choice, but having seen the proof that running to the center does not win you the independents, are not going let the party do that again, if we can help it.
Rudy will not bring people to the republican party. He will destroy the republican party.
Arnold had no coattails in California. Rudy will have no coattails (unless they are democratic).
Pew researc used to be tribune research. It was at its founding, and still is, far left. The name was changed from Tribune to Pew in an attempt to hide it’s origin.