Tom Paine @ 186:
“You have the incisive intellect of a wet noodle…. a very small, limp, flaccid wet noodle.”
Obama won the 2008 election thanks to Sarah Palin scaring away the independents and moderates.
The Republican base is too small, too old, and too out of touch with the rest of the US to win an election by themselves.
The urban vote is a lot more important than the rural vote and the urban voters are mostly Democrat.
The change of demographics, especially in the South, means that not even the Southern Strategy is working anymore, as witnessed when Florida became a blue state in the 2008 Presidential elections.
Thanks to Sarah Palin and the other Republicans pandering to a base that is getting increasingly irrelevant, no city dweller will ever vote Republican again.
And I really like you, Tom Paine.
Your “rebuttals” really makes my points more valid.
