Then the only successful strategy is to try to educate the voters in those two districts to the supremecy of conservative ideology.
But having a 3/2 ad is better than a 2/3 disadv.
SD has over 3 million population
My dist. runs from well educated in 1 to 12 million a unit condos and homes from $500,000 to over 20 million
Some of these are mixed voters.
A huge upscale gay dist. with thousands, mostly coll. grads
to trust fund suckers. Dem voters
Then areas of basic workers who are mostly Dems.
Several miles east in this dist. are Horn of Africa, Middle East, Russians, etc.
My neighborhood near downtown is a nice area, lot of people from New York and Boston also huge numbers of Europeans.
Your posts are excellent... People need to learn that conversion of liberals to conservatives is a process, much like evangelism. You convert people not by beating them over the head, or saying "put up or shut up" or "go away because you aren't 100% exactly as I demand", but by challenging them about their positions, bringing them about one at a time, and living with them.
If we want to shrink the GOP, we can. Of course, we'll end up with a 35% Democrat, 17% GOP, and 17% conservative party break-out, and that will guarantee a virtual lock for Democrats forever.
No, the GOP needs to be brought around to better reflect the conservative position, which means it must be won in the battle of ideas, internal to the GOP. And its message of conservatism needs to be open and freely expressed, not a "this way or the highway". I'll welcome anyone to come and discuss my positions or my faith, and I will welcome them to walk along with me, even if they do not fully believe as I do. Because the more time I can spend with them, the stronger my case becomes.
Ideological purists are the surest way to kill any hope for a non-Democrat rule.