1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Alcoholic Beast (drinkingpony) http://rainbowdash.net/drinkingpony http://rainbowdash.net/notice/5466354 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/17847" class="url" title="Angry Liberal"><span class="fn nickname mention">mrmattimation</span></a></span> Ohkay, I think I found the sore spot right then and there.<br /><br />&gt; &quot;best path to victory is maintaining states already won, not winning new ones,&quot;<br /><br />That is way too much true to the whole idea of political ideologies eating themselves once they get more and more totalitarian. That is &quot;Back your base !&quot; &quot;Back Your Base !&quot; &quot;BACK YOUR OWN FRIGGIN BASE !&quot; untill you have alienated everyone that was not already part of the in-group by the first time those words were chanted.<br /><br />Back to modern day America. No group is going to win without the support of the people who feel no strong affiliation and rather let the policies ( or gut ) speak to them. Hell, the Rust Belt voted surprisingly Trump after 2 election cycles of &quot;Hope&quot;.<br /><br />Not to say I would not be surprised that in the campaign office they jokingly talk about 'It is not about winning, it is about sending a message' while giving it their best Michael Caine impression.<br /><br />But it honestly sometimes is, just about sending a message.