[BlackElk]

One reasonably suspects that those tattooed, video-gaming, Walmart shoppers are a LOT more likely to be reflexively pro-life, straight, hawkish, anti-tax on modest folks, anti-global warming propaganda and taxes, and anti-Obamneycare than Romney's base at the polo club, the Junior Leagfue and Wall Street Board Rooms. Hence, they may be a LOT more available to Tom Hoefling than to Romney so long as they are aware of Tom.

Romney is much more likely to disdain them as "the great unwashed." They just don't understand the vital importance of derivatives and other smartass sophisticated Wall Street plunderer's financial schemes to gull the suckers and the mere peons who actually have to pay taxes at a higher rate than their majesties.

NMost of us can live without derivatives but occasionally have a real need for auto mechanics, electricians and plumbers who may well also be Walmart Shoppers rather than patrons of Rodeo Drive or Fifth Avenue.

[SoothingDave]

And a LOT more likely to get their news from Jon Stewart, if they know anything about the world at all.

It’s not just about getting the people who agree with the Constitution to vote for your guy.

If it were only that easy. You need to get votes from the electorate that really exists. And a large number of them voted for Obama last time.

[EternalVigilance]

There’s a story I heard years ago, and I can’t track down its provenance, but it rings true:

After the Civil War there was a former general being challenged for a seat in congress by a former private, and the former private was asked how in the world he thought he could beat a former general. His drawled response was, “Well, the way I figure it is that there were a whole lot more of us privates than there were generals.”