red states rule
12-09-2011, 04:33 AM
Obama is doing to the Dem party what he has been doing to America since he took office
Now if the R's would stop beating up on each other and start talking about Obama's record and all his acomplishments, Obama can enjoy his retirement starting 1/20/13
President Obama’s uphill battle to re-election (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-sets-campaign-theme-middle-class-stake-15100004) is getting steeper.
A report released today by the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled the Democratic Party (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee-chairman-2012-is-going-to-be-a-historic-year/) since Obama won election in 2008.
“The numbers show that Democrats’ path to victory just got harder,” said Lanae Erickson, the report’s co-author. “We are seeing both an increase in independents and a decrease in Democrats and that means the coalition they have to assemble is going to rely even more on independents in 2012 than it did in 2008.”
Amid frustrating partisan gridlock and unprecedentedly low party-approval ratings, the number of voters registering under a major party is falling fast, but it is also falling disproportionately.
In eight states that will be must-wins in 2012 (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/2012Election/) – Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Pennsylvania – Democrats lost 5.4 percent of their registered voters while Republicans lost 3.1 percent. The number of independent voters in those states jumped 3.4 percent.
“People are frustrated and the way you tune out in American politics is that is you drop the label of the two parties,” said Steven Jarding, a Harvard public policy professor and Democratic campaign strategist. “The danger for Obama in this is he is not only going to have to capture them but capture more of them because there are less Democratic voters.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/voters-flee-democratic-party-in-key-swing-states/
Now if the R's would stop beating up on each other and start talking about Obama's record and all his acomplishments, Obama can enjoy his retirement starting 1/20/13
President Obama’s uphill battle to re-election (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-sets-campaign-theme-middle-class-stake-15100004) is getting steeper.
A report released today by the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled the Democratic Party (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee-chairman-2012-is-going-to-be-a-historic-year/) since Obama won election in 2008.
“The numbers show that Democrats’ path to victory just got harder,” said Lanae Erickson, the report’s co-author. “We are seeing both an increase in independents and a decrease in Democrats and that means the coalition they have to assemble is going to rely even more on independents in 2012 than it did in 2008.”
Amid frustrating partisan gridlock and unprecedentedly low party-approval ratings, the number of voters registering under a major party is falling fast, but it is also falling disproportionately.
In eight states that will be must-wins in 2012 (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/2012Election/) – Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Pennsylvania – Democrats lost 5.4 percent of their registered voters while Republicans lost 3.1 percent. The number of independent voters in those states jumped 3.4 percent.
“People are frustrated and the way you tune out in American politics is that is you drop the label of the two parties,” said Steven Jarding, a Harvard public policy professor and Democratic campaign strategist. “The danger for Obama in this is he is not only going to have to capture them but capture more of them because there are less Democratic voters.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/voters-flee-democratic-party-in-key-swing-states/