Ingraham is wrong. Some areas are electorally lost. Go for what we can get, expose the other side as traitors, then use federal power and/or Federalist 46 State action to wipe ALL of them out. Watter is even dumber. In the Pacific in WW2, we did "island hopping"--taking strategic ones and bypassing others. This is what devotion to the electoral method does to conservatives. Sometimes it's not about "ballots." It's about BULLETS. ADDENDUM: So some people don't misunderstand, "bullets" are the modern equivalent of "sword" as a metaphor for kinetic government action. Hence the reference to "federal power and/or Federalist 46 State action." I reiterate my position here: