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Originally Posted by nik-
Yeah, I don't know if I really buy that. People aren't really listening to right wing radio because they want help deciding who to vote for. Those stations and personalities are just base reinforcement.
You're probably right when it comes to primaries, which tend to get more radical, but for big picture voting, these people who listen to those programs have already made up their minds.
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That's the thing though. Tea Party guys are able to weasle into republican nominations, but aren't really winning elections. Same thing happened in the Virginia Governor race.
I suspect it will be the moderate Republicans who end up abandoning their party and leaving it to the Tea Party. I suspect Cantor would easily win our house seat if he ran under a new moderate conservative third party.
There are so many examples where the tea party is coming in and winning nominations in districts and states where the republican has about a 90% chance of winning only to have their wing nut lose in the general election.