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Originally Posted by crockett
Conservatives love to be lied to.. Bush will just lie and change his mind about any previous issues and it will then be ok. Look at Mitt Romney as example. Look at all the stuff in his background like Romeycare and woman's issues.. He just lied about it and made himself a new past and the "base" ate it up.
With the right more than anything, it's all about the "team". When Democrats aren't happy with their voting options they don't vote. Clear example is the last mid terms. Democrats just didn't vote, hence the reason so many Republicans won their elections..
Meanwhile Republicans vote for the team not for the candidate and will vote for whomever the GOP presents for them. This has been shown time and time again, clear example of McCain and Mitt Romney.. both were hated by the fringes but the fringes still showed up to vote for them.
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Not true at all. The base of the Republicans stay home too if they are not happy. Romney lost because the base stayed home. Both Democrats and Republicans stay home if they are not happy.
Midterms are a tough thing for Democrats though. Midterm elections tend to skew older and only the die hards. The older you are, the more you skew Republicans and they get a bigger turnout usually as a result. Again unless pissed, like 06 where you had Republicans pissed at Bush for his and congress spending out of control, and you had Democrats pissed with the wars and losing 04.
But yes you are right about McCain and Romney and any RINO that is a Democrat really, but runs and campaigns are conservatives. They try to win moderates but lose their base, and lose elections. Christie and Bush are this years. Even Scott Walker is jello on a lot of issues. You can see McCain by the way starting to act very conservative again, as he is up again in 16. Does it everytime.