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In reply to the discussion: What message would we send if we quickly rejected Bernie and crowned HRC? [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)I disagree with most of the posts under your post here that are both pro-Hillary or pro-Bernie.
There are not that many hard core republican voters that are going to cross parties these days. Most of them inform themselves through Fox news and aren't really interested in debate or discussion. Where we can win is by getting our base fired up and by getting people that aren't as excited about politics enthusiastic about issues that the majority of people care about. Hell, if we could get the working poor to show up and vote then we could take a majority in both houses of congress.
When we start worrying about attracting supposedly moderate republicans we are already losing the fight strategically in order to make some tiny tactical victory. Any republican that still calls themselves a republican, given the current insanity of that party, isn't someone that is going to be convinced out of their theocratic, paranoid, randroid fantasy terribly easily.