Frank Luntz: "a large and growing constituency of independent voters"

This just isn’t working -- Lack of ideas, credibility makes Republicans fade from power, By Frank Luntz, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...“Don’t be afraid to see what you see,” Ronald Reagan once said.
Today, many of his disciples are choosing not to see the obvious. Republicans in Congress cannot regain their majority merely by relying on a coalition of traditional conservatives and evangelicals. They must reach out to what I call “the fed-ups” – a large and growing constituency of independent voters who have held the balance of power in every election since 1992, and will hold it again in 2008....