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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 don't agree with the IM very much. It wasn't that there were too many debates. it was that there were too many fringe voters.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka Joemetz) Mar 19 '13, 10:00

when your primary voting demographic is in a race to the right...you are going to have candidates race to the righ to get them.

There was one craven guy who had to be President (Mitt) and then half a dozen people who were all in a race to go farther to the right to appeal to the primary voters.

Until you can find a way to bring your party voting center more into alignment with something approaching reality, you're going to have this race to the right. It doesn't matter if there's 10 debates, 20 debates or 30 debates.

crazy voters beget crazy ambitious candidates.

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My IM was me agreeing with what Priebus himself said on FtN - Mr. Havens Mar 19, 10:05 8
- And I don't agree per se. Hillary and Obama in 2008 had as long a contest and Obama did fine - Will Hunting Mar 19, 10:09 7
  - Romney wasn't the only one who botched it. Rove botched it. Priebus botched it. Akin botched it. They all botched it - Mr. Havens Mar 19, 10:13 4
    - Because most people zone out for July/August so why spend General Election money in dead zones? - Will Hunting Mar 19, 10:22
    - You wait a couple months to make it "official" for financial reasons. Primary funds and general elections funds are two separate pots. - Ender Mar 19, 10:17 2
      - So you wait to spend out one pot before spending out of the other, even though it's going to be the same message either way? Not good enough -- nm - Mr. Havens Mar 19, 10:19 1
        
        The general election pot is much smaller than the primary pot, so the less time you spend it in the more effect it has. -- nm - Ender Mar 19, 10:23
  - because a one on one between two strong candidates is a different matter than the circular firing squad that was the GOP's nominating process -- nm - znufrii Mar 19, 10:12 1
    - President is a 4yr job where you are getting hammered by everyone. He's saying the GOP can't survive 6 months of that - Will Hunting Mar 19, 10:19

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I don't agree with the IM very much. It wasn't that there were too many debates. it was that there were too many fringe voters.

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