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In reply to the discussion: Because America Needs an Electoral Left: Why Bernie Sanders Should Enter the Presidential Primaries [View all]Trust Buster
(7,299 posts).....Riddle me this. We all know that the center 20% of the country decides Presidential elections. We also watched as Romney's primary opponents forced him to tack further to the Right. The idiot was going around on the stump telling anyone who would listen that he is a "severe" conservative to pander to those farther on the Right.
The result: despite running against an incumbent President with a bad economy. Romney managed to alienate the majority of swing voters and lost an election that historical data suggest was easily winnable.
So now some here think that we should copy the Republican strategy. You want to run Sanders against Hillary and force her to tack farther to the Left and away from that essential middle 20%. You feel that this country is poised for such a move despite that fact that your faces are turning blue from holding your breath in fear that the Democrats will lose the majority in the Senate this fall. A very peculiar logic indeed. I'd highly suggest you approach 2016 with your head instead of your heart because a potential 7 - 2 wing nut majority on the Supreme Court will break that heart of yours.