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To: Dale Baker who wrote (200441)9/7/2012 12:03:23 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542149
 
Interesting conversation on TV last night, I think it was the MSNBC crew with Chris Hayes, about the way parties come and go. The argument was that the US simply has no history of serious third parties. If a party declines, it doesn't lead to multiple parties but to another party taking that space.

If that's true, we are in a kind of transition period. If it weren't filled with so many serious dangers, it would be fun to watch. But it's going to be perilous, to understate it.-



To: Dale Baker who wrote (200441)9/7/2012 2:03:34 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 542149
 
" That would be very, very tricky with the Tea Party crowd in the same tent."

If I were running the (R)'s, I would ditch the anti-immigrant plank and attempt to capture a significant part of the Hispanic vote with strongly pro-family positions. They might lose some fearful old whites, but it wouldn't be to the (D)'s, and they'd pick up more than they lost.


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