I mean, Kerry did his job. He got all the Democrats, he even won the independents. But what the president did was trump all that by finding, identifying, motivating, and then delivering to the polls millions of new Republican voters.
Begala explains how the Bush campaign successfully mobilized new Republican voters.
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It's a tragedy for the country. We need a strong, normal mainstream Republican Party.
People right now, I think, are afraid of extremists and comforted by incumbents.
So far, it is only effective with the core of his base, right? By double digits, Independents think that these charges are merited in the ABC poll this weekend.
The political violence in this country is on the rise. Republicans have got to speak out about this or someone's going to get hurt.
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