I remember the days of DU when

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47. We not only have far left radicals at DU, we also have conservatives.

The far left often don't see themselves that way -- thus their fondness for claiming Democrats "have become" conservative; some really do believe that.

Apparently our DU conservatives, both affiliated with the Democratic Party and not, don't care to identify themselves here -- if they know themselves. Political definitions are so distorted for expediency that lots of people don't actually know where they would fall on an ideological spectrum, much less that it can be on both sides at once.

In any case, I think we shouldn't worry about those who will choose peeling off to the right or staying home come voting day. They are relatively few, and pleasing them (assuming we even could) would mean losing far more votes than gained.

The large numbers of nonvoters who actually share the Democratic Party's ideology are in the huge, more moderate through centrist range. Those are the people the Democratic Party needs to woo the support of.