Reply #4: By the way, we did get our base to the polls. It was the middle that went [View All]

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Didn't you read the Pew poll today? Educated moderates and diasaffected working class people (respectively) voted heavily R and didn't vote, and those who voted from both groups were motivated by fear -- they voted on the Osama/missing bombs issue. And this was despite the fact that both of those groups have people who could be motivated to vote Dem on issues like having a government that takes care of the poor (an issue which the Dems didn't reach out on effectively).