Pero, I don't think you've ever fully grasped my couch-sitter theorem. You attribute it to "independents". That's as good a word as any for them.
There's a bunch who always votes.
There's a bunch who never vote.
And there's a bunch who sometimes votes. This is the gang that determines the winners.
They might or might not get off their couches. Half of them are liberal, half of them are conservative, they are registered as partisans and independents and you never know what shiny thing might get them off the couches and into the polls. Some are voting for the first time, some haven't voted for 40 years. Some only vote in presidential elections.
Most of them agree with you. 15% of them agree with me. The rest are batshit crazy.
