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Well, wait.
If you are going to include McVeigh on the list…then we can go to extremes too. For example, if you say the Democrats are broad, then there is legitimate criticism that groups like ELF and the Weather Underground, are in fact, Democrats.
Go the the Communist Party website. They have endorsed everything Obama has said. Does that mean they are in the Democratic Party as well?
Most of the paranoia about 9/11 as an inside job? Iraq War for oil? That paranoia is mainstream, and from the left. On the right, the birthers are fringe. On the left, the truthers are in congress.
I would argue that neither party is broader than the other…and I at least have some evidence to prove it, except simple opinion like erad states:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114016/state-states-political-party-affiliation.aspx
Right now, Democrats have a slight edge (well, as of end of last year), In 2002 and 2004, Republicans had an edge. In other words, it shift back and forth.
Now, if you look at conservatives, they have been consistently the largest ideological group. There used to be conservatives in the Democratic Party…but really, no more. I would not call anyone in the Democratic party conservative…maybe moderate, but definitely not conservative. Lieberman comes the closest, and he is pretty liberal on social issues.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123854/conservatives-maintain-edge-top-ideological-group.aspx
So basically, you have a country that is pretty divided…and the elections show that. Sure, you have swing elections, but a President has not really won by a landslide since 1984, where the candidate has won every region of the country.
