Top Democrat: 2012 Election Will Be Won By The Base

Maryland governor Martin O’Malley told BuzzFeed that Democrats will win in 2012 by energizing their base, not by trying to persuade elusive swing voters. …

“Sometimes in campaigns you can drive yourself crazy with the micro-targeting and the pollsters and the tea leaves and the pixie dust trying to twist yourself into triple back-flips to appeal to the three percent that are the undecideds that live in suburbs and have lawns that are less than 20 feet long and all that bullshit,” O’Malley said in an interview at BuzzFeed’s Manhattan office Thursday. [cont.]

Rosie Gray and Ruby Cramer, BuzzFeed