Reply #15: I thought so too at first

[anigbrowl]

but I started thinking about how Clinton won a lot of swing voters. I'm not reading too much into it - it seems like it was an off-the-cuff remark, but I just thought it had an aspect of truth to it rather than being total BS. Personally I don't think a lot of these super-partisan tea party types (rank and file rather than the loudest shouters) were all that partisan14-18 years ago. Like consider that NYT profile the other day observing that almost half of them thought the amount of tax they paid was 'about right', which was surprising. I think the momentum comes from people worried about the deficit eating into their retirement and only a minority of them are hard-core ideological.