I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.
You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.
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