Reply #40: There's a huge flaw in your theory

[lifelong_Dem]

Those 80 million still didn't vote when unapologetic liberals Mondale and Dukakis were running.

Historically, there are people who vote, and people who don't vote, and the non-voters mirror the ideology of the voters pretty closely.

There is no legion of progressive voters out there ready to ride to the rescue. We have to play the hand we're dealt, and like it or not, that means we have to appeal to the center. Now, I don't think the DLCs way is necessarily the right one, but if we run to the left in 2004, we can look forward to four more years of Bush* and the PNAC in power.