All our base are belong to them

Republicans are great at energizing their base, and offending everyone else. The house leadership thinks nothing of making hay out of Terri Shiavo, creationalism, homophobia and the marriage ammendment. On the left, though, we obsess about all Americans, not just those that are part of our base.

For example, from Salon.com's War Room:

Samuel Alito is by no means extremely popular with the American people -- but a Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll taken after the hearings began shows that substantially more people support his confirmation than his defeat, and Rasmussen's daily polling shows that his support has increased, rather than decreased, during the hearings.

"Substantially more people".

"popular with the American people".

Notice the difference between that type of thinking and the play-to-the-base red meat the R's throw out to their base?