Listening to NPR recently, I heard a presidential candidate talking about swaying voters. I couldn’t tell you which of the two dozen candidates it was, but he didn’t wow me. But he hit on something that troubled me greatly. He was asked about ‘reaching Trump voters’. Not a bad topic to ask a candidate, I suppose. His answer, however started with an observation about Nixon. He remarked that (and I’m paraphrasing), ‘when Nixon left office, he had 25% support. So I think there’s about 25% of voters you just aren’t going to reach’. He continued to talk about reaching the remaining voters, but I feel like we’re burying the lead here. Continue reading →