re: #37 dangerman

expanding the pie (market) is a much wiser strategy than slicing and dicing, fighting over pieces and crumbs of the existing pie.

there is a huge untapped market. easier to mint a new ally than make a convert (these days)

There is little pie expansion when we have local elected officials who are republican nuts. When we have the electoral college with no way to make inroads into deep red states.

We can further expand cities, but rural areas who have been brainwashed by 25+ years of Limbaugh and Fox (and now the real loonies) make inroads into those places, the places we need to win elections top to bottom, much harder.