Insanity is electing John Boehner Speaker of House over and over and expecting different results.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

12. Insanity is re-electing Boehner to the House at all.

After the first time, you'd think people would have learned something.

The reality is that the vast majority of Americans have simply given up on voting as a way to solve any of our problems. The only people bothering to vote any more are hard core partisans and political junkies. It's why, more and more, every election is simply about getting people to bother to vote, because ever smaller numbers of people are actually electing officials.

I think maybe it's time to start microtargeting Republican likely voters to try and win them over to third party candidates as a 'win-win' possible outcome. Drain off Republican votes, and get either an indie or Dem into office. (And I mean real third parties, not the 'Tea Party' which is just an extremist Republican caucus.) Simply targeting Democratic likely voters doesn't do anything to change the numbers of votes for Republicans. We need to convince their voters that their own candidates aren't and won't deliver for them, and cost them voters directly.