Posted on 12/08/2011 8:30:49 PM PST by neverdem
President Obama and his re-election team have prided themselves on their well-oiled get-out-the-vote effort. But a new study from the centrist think tank Third Way suggests Democrats are losing ground organizationally in nearly all of the key battleground states in the general election.
The group's analysis found that, in the eight politically-pivotal states that register voters by party, a significant number have left the Democratic party since 2008, with many choosing to register as independents. Over 825,000 registered Democrats in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have departed the party rolls since President Obama's election in 2008, a much more significant share than the number of Republicans (378,000) who have done the same. Meanwhile, the number of registered independents has ticked upwards by 254,000.
The report underscores how much different 2012 will be for Obama than 2008. Back then, it was commonplace to hear how many new voters the Obama campaign was registering. Now, it looks like some of those voters, newly disenchanted, are leaving the party rolls.
That's right - he ran to "get back" at the Bush family, with whom he had a long-running fued. And he succeeded in blocking Bush's re-election and gave us Bill Clinton.
Perot saddled the country with a lying, cheating, coke-sniffing hillbilly in the White House to carry out his vendetta against the Bush family. What a patriot! /sarc
Well said. I agree.
>> Clinton also learned from it, and was a better “Republican” than the one he followed.
The Towers would still be standing if Perot stood down — my subjective opinion of course.
“The Towers would still be standing if Perot stood down — my subjective opinion of course.”
Arabs in my class were questioned by the FBI when the towers were first bombed in 1993, about a month after Clinton took office. Republicans weren’t doing anything about expired visas or illegal aliens, either.
19% is not “getting back at someone”; he talked about things that were being ignored by both parties who were interested in seeing our jobs sent overseas.
bttt
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