There's a political insight going around that makes sense to me: "There are almost no swing voters left in this nation." That explains why the Republican leadership isn't talking to swing voters. It talks only to the base part of its base.
The two parties are so starkly different in the positions they take that the Golden Gate Bridge couldn't link them together. Elected representatives who occupied the middle 20 years ago have been primaried back into civilian life. Today election victory depends on (1) gerrymandering and (2) voter turnout. That is why, while under attack by the teabaggers on four fake scandals, President Obama's popularity poll has ticked up a point.
Those who voted for Obama see the teabaggers as dangerously nuts--teafolk have little credibility except within their own faithful. The more wildly they attack, the smaller their party will shrink.
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