Revised Prediction for the Rep. Primary: Bitterness, Gnashing of teeth, Years of Recrimination.

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13. Think back and I think you will remember that besides health care there were vast amount

of time spent at the debate over exactly what policy was the best for Iraq, Immigration and so on. They were two policy wonks competing for each other and there wasn't a lot of daylight between a lot of the policies but there was a lot of policy discussion.

The Republicans have yet to have a single important policy discussion at all.

Compared to 2008 the Republicans have had no policy debates at all, just trying to outcompete each other with nonsensical tax reduction and competing with who is the most 'anti-Obama'.

The world view of the leaders of the AA and GLBTs have come into much closer harmony but you are right that there remains distance on the issue of 'marriage' at the grass roots level, but that too is changing, but on the more general question of equal rights and the role of government, etc. there is commonality.

But my larger point was that the Evangelicals really hate people like Donald Trump and people like John McCain really despise people like Ron Paul and vice versa. Those kinds of divisions don't exist in the Democratic Party.