Republican objectives tend to be more in-line with what its constituents want [...] The outcome is a Republican base that generally-consistently turns out, and a Democratic base that turns out only when they feel they are losing.
This may all be correct, but it seems to me an entirely different argument from the one you made before and on which I was commenting.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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