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DetlefK

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8. Problem: If you are not fanatic enough, these voters abstain.

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 11:17 AM

Jul 2015

These 5-10% of republican voters are 2.5-5% of the eligible voters.

They would never vote for the other guy, BUT they will vote for you if you tell them what they want to hear and abstain if you don't tell them what they want to hear.

In a close election, having or not having 5% makes a huge difference.

According to a recent poll, Hillary would beat Bush 52:48. That's within the margin of error for early polls. But if you substract the 5% republican tin-foil-hatters who stay home if you don't come out against the government occupying Texas and liberal elitists using sophisticated diplomacy with big words, the result is more like 54:46.

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Republican candidates, as usual, are going for the lowest common denominator. [View all] MineralMan Jul 2015 OP

Valid point! Kber Jul 2015 #1

Well said. Whoever takes the long range view, and remembers the GOP Clown Car of 2012, gets it. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #2

Yup. We need to be watching Bush, and to stop MineralMan Jul 2015 #3

Bush has been busy raising a mountain of cash, in the open and in secret. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #4

Yes. He's already built a large campaign fund, MineralMan Jul 2015 #6

I am shocked, totally shocked... Hepburn Jul 2015 #5

I know...really. MineralMan Jul 2015 #7

Problem: If you are not fanatic enough, these voters abstain. DetlefK Jul 2015 #8

That's true, but some Democratic voters may well not MineralMan Jul 2015 #9

MM, I am with you on this. longship Jul 2015 #10

Really serious GOTV activism is the thing that MineralMan Jul 2015 #11