John Harwood in the Wall Street Journal tells us that "Prevailing political wisdom holds that the only things that matter are each party's "base" -- that there is no center anymore, and no more swing voters worth chasing...."
Of course in a two-party frame-work, as Jackie Salit put it on Fox News Heartland with John Kasich last week, the concern of the political establishment is with the outcome of the elections. As independents come together and stand up for the country, neither party will recognize this base because it's not in their interest...
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