Indefatigable commenter ConservativeCabbie argues:
Good idea, ConservativeCabbie! I was indeed going to mention the most recent WaPo/ABC poll which is, not to put too fine a point on it, horrific for the GOP.No doubt someone will report on the latest WaPo poll which shows Republican ID at 21% and use it as evidences of the GOP’s terminal decline. The only thing I would say to this… is that in the most recent important poll, the election, the GOP still won 47% of the vote. And that was with decidedly unpropitious circumstances. I agree that the GOP are on the ropes. But isn’t that a fact when it comes to parties falling out of power – that they move towards their more extreme base before moving back to the middle. That’s what happened to post-Carter Democrats, post-Callaghan Labour and post-Thatcher/Major Tories. I would suggest that this process is even more pronounced in America due to the lack of a party leader.
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