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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: halfscot who wrote (8796)	11/5/1998 3:43:00 AM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

It seems to me it is too glib to blow off Democratic victories as having successfully appealed to the "lowest common denominator" etc.. Such arguments smack of elitism and exclusionary politics. They miss what is going on in the real world. One day the Republicans will learn that he who excludes looses! It might be more properly said that Republicans, who have for years failed to understand that you need a majority to win, have lost their elections through adherence to exclusionary religious right issues. Bob Dole was a classic example. Quale is starting from the same loosing position. Which Jew is going to vote for such a platform? Which Muslim? Which atheist? Which Oriental? Which middle of the road Democrat? Indeed, which middle of the road Republican? I think the Republicans need to look hard at what happened here in Arizona on Tuesday and learn a big lesson if they really want to win the White House. Govenor Jane Hull won a resounding victory picking up 30% of the democratic vote in the process. She avoided all religious right baggage. Maybe she lost a few of the party right wing voters, but she grabbed every other Republican and a huge chunk of the middle of the road democrats and won decisively. The pet issues of the religious right : school prayer, banning abortion, etc., obviously make some 3 or 5% of the population happy, but a very large part of this country wants nothing to do with those ideas and for more than thirty years has voted accordingly. Those who carry that exclusionary religious right banner in the front of their parade are never going to attract large majorities. I suspect they alienate twenty voters for every one that banner attracts. By the way: notice how this thread is drifting away from Clinton and his shenannigans?