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In response to "The case he made on Face the Nation Sunday proves he just does not get it. The message wasn't weak. The message was wrong" by Mr. Havens

I've never seen a candidate have to fight so hard to maintain his base and have so little time to pivot to the center.

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Mar 19 '13, 10:00

they usually get to do that once the nomination is locked up but Mitt had a mere few weeks. It's not always wrong to have a long healthy primary contest but when it requires your presumptive front runner to continue to have to feed the base a steady diet of red meat...that's not good.

That's what this guy is trying to say without saying it.

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They keep trying to maintain a base that itself maintains a losing argument, by saying "You don't need to change anything, your opinions are right, - Max Mar 19, 10:05 8
- I think they're going to be very embarrassed by the whole Anti-Gay message a lot sooner than I thought. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 19, 10:12 4
  - I wouldn't be so sure. Churches are a main way GOP gets organized, and we know how many of them feel about SSM. -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 10:15 3
    - You're discounting the number of minority churches who don't support the GOP at all. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 19, 10:16 2
      - but what do those have to do with informing the GOP's views on marriage? -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 10:19
      - I didn't want to call out any particular ones -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 10:18
- (agreed) -- nm - Strongbad Mar 19, 10:07
- Which goes back to the original post. There isn't one solution... -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 19, 10:06
- agreed. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 19, 10:06

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I've never seen a candidate have to fight so hard to maintain his base and have so little time to pivot to the center.

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