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To: Dale Baker who wrote (18965)	5/17/2006 7:24:31 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543303

I suspect it will take a combination of the right personality combined with public readiness to be fed up with the partisan bashing and reach out for a different political style. I don't see that potential in most of the well-known political names out there. So I am not sure how much difference the platform would make. It seems to me that the first thing this mysterious consensus candidate would need to do is to deep-six the Atwaters, Carvilles and Roves from his/her staff. Their strategies of using highly emotional wedge issues makes bipartisanship impossible. They can help a candidate win elections, but at what cost? This "red state blue state" divide is not helpful at all, either. I think the candidate should try to emphasize the purple instead. I could draft something that appeal to most swing voters, but I realized the crux of the issue is whether the hardcore right or left would sign on too. The key here is in finding a platform that includes all but the extreme fringes at both ends. It seems to me as though it ought to be possible to find a set of values and policies that could include 60/70% of our fellow citizens. Certainly not every single issue, but enough to keep their loyalty otherwise. I'll give it some thought.