[kevao]

Most people aren’t all that liberal nor conservative. If the folks at FR crafted a platform, for example, I doubt it would appeal to more people than if the folks at DU crafted a platform.

Maybe you're too young to remember, but a conservative platform did very well in 1980, in 1984, and again in 1988. Very, very well. Landslide-victory type well.

[HitmanLV]

1980 was a powerful rejection of Carter and the dems. 1984 was a powerful conservative victory, but the electorate kicked the GOP out of power in the senate two short years later. 1988 was a third term for Reagan that didn’t materialize.

1984 was a long time ago. The country isn’t as conservative as it was back then, sorry.