re: #288 RealityBasedSteve

Right now there is a tea party guy who is running against Lamar Alexander in the primary here in TN. One of the things that helps the TP types is that primary voters tend to be HIGHLY MOTIVATED individuals. If you take your typical moderate centrist (Or Mod-Left / Mod-Right) voter they tend to be the ‘get along - go along’ willing to compromise type. They probably don’t like everything their Rep / Senator has done, but all in all, he’s ok with them. The TPs view anything that isn’t in lockstep with their rigid views as unacceptable. They vote in primaries, moderates less so.

Couple that with the highly gerrymandered safe districts so common today and you have the perfect storm where a small group of ideologues can inflict their view on the majority.

RBS

Do you think the arrest of Ryan Loskarn is going to have any effect on Alexander’s campaign? I tend to think probably not.