Damn The Yokels, Full Speed Ahead

Going after moderates, independents, and all these yokels [bold mine-DL] is not the blueprint.  The blueprint’s there, 1994, taking back the House, the blueprint’s there.  Why are these people ignoring it? ~Rush Limbaugh

That’s odd.  I had thought that Limbaugh et al. were going to be the tribunes of the yokels against their urbane detractors, but apparently yokels are now all of those people who are not registered Republicans.  It’s a funny thing, that 1994 election victory–how did it happen?  I suspect it may be yokel-related.  In 1992, the Republicans won 46% of the independent vote (24% of the electorate), but won 56% in 1994.  That looks good at first, but who really needs them?  They’re just a bunch of yokels.  The 1994 blueprint involved to a large extent winning back independents who had drifted to the Democrats, but why try to appeal to these people?  I mean, when you’ve got a rock-solid 35% of the electorate, you can do anything, right?