Voter turnout/party affiliation

[TheModernTerrorist]

I gave a response to someone questioning Kucinich's "electability", and this is the point I was trying to make.

Historically, there's only a very small percentage of people who vote without party affiliation in mind, and its only been getting more polarized. The biggest deciding factors come election day are voter turnout and how that marginally small section of America votes. That said, if we mobilize enough people in the party, we can field ANY candidate, regardless of what people truly think, within limits of course. Kucinich is not seen as some crazy lunatic trying to be president, he's just shut out of the public discourse. This is one of the many reasons why I will be voting for Kucinich in the primary. Look at any recent election data, take a government class somewhere, and you'll see that this is why our elections are so close when the candidates seem so obviously unelectable, as Bush was. It is because party affiliation is the #1 SINGLE MOST DECIDING FACTOR IN THE ELECTION! So it would serve us well to vote for people who have true progressive ideas on moving this country forward. We shouldn't let "electability" and the MSM tell us who we should vote for. They say so and so is unelectable, but party affiliation still remains the #1 deciding factor in the election, so I'm not too worried about fielding and outsider, even if people still buy into the bullshit myth that he is unelectable.

I'm still a Gore/Clark fan, but as the days go on I doubt either will run, but that doesn't mean I don't support Kucinich 100%. I've warmed up to Edwards as well, but I still plan on voting Kucinich in the primary.