Reply #25: the results of their polarization strategy

[NJCher]

This article reveals why they dumped the "uniter not a divider" promise:

That even became part of an electoral strategy dating back to the 2000 election that suggested there was nothing to be gained by moderation. In a memo he wrote to Karl Rove, Bush pollster Matthew Dowd estimated that truly independent voters had fallen to a mere sliver of the electorate. There were, Dowd concluded, not enough percentage points in being "a uniter, not a divider." The key to winning in a polarized country was mobilizing the conservative base.

Not that anyone ever believed for a second that these power-mad demons would govern any other way.

The article does have its faults, as several posters above have pointed out, but I still enjoyed reading this:

It took 40 years for the House Democrats to exhaust their goodwill. It may take only 12 years for the Republicans to get there.




Cher