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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Saw some commentators last night including two old Clinton advisors. The Clinton guy's take was that Rove early on realized this would be a "get out the base" election, whereas Kerry's people kept switching between "get out the base" and getting swing votes- "killing geese."
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He didn't "realize" it. It was Rove's strategy. And a lot of people thought it wouldn't work. Kerry's strategy worked well too -- he got his base out, and did very well with swing voters. (He only lost 51-48, and by 150,000 (or whatever) in Ohio. If not for the freakish result last time, we'd be thinking about this as one of the closest elections in recent history.) But swing voters don't vote in the same numbers as either side's base. Rove is clearly very good at what he does, and what he does is to create a polarized, contentious environment in which cultural issues motivated conservatives to go to the polls.
