Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No “Center”

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88. Karl Rove put a chimpanzee in the White House TWICE by convincing a narrow slice of 3 million

far right voters, who normally stay home on election day, to come out and vote. The strategy was sound. The only reason it ultimately failed was because the policies that they implemented once in office were failures, and the rational people at the political center abandoned them.

Roves strategy was sound: To give people who don't normally vote a reason to vote by picking a FEW issues that they feel strongly about (classical Lee Atwater 'wedge and magnet issues.')

That strategy WORKS, and gets candidates ELECTED.

Whether they CONTINUE to get elected will depend whether the policies they implement succeed or fail:

A. If the elected candidates implement policies that FAIL, they will lose rational voters in the political center, and be stuck with the extremists they activated. Or,

B. If the elected candidates implement policies that SUCCEED, the political center will actually SHIFT in the direction the election was pulled, because you'll convince more people that your philosophy is correct.


That's really what this is all about. Roves strategy was sound when it came to getting people elected. It was NOT sound in KEEPING them elected because most of the the policies they implemented were crap. The classic old scenario of one party being good at winning elections, but lousy at governing; and the other party being good at governing but lousy at winning elections. Democrats can be good at governing, so lets not change THAT part. Let's just adopt the successful election strategies that the party that's good at winning elections uses as well.