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With the two parties now incapable of doing anything other than get in pissing contests it’s not a surprise the mushy middle is growing.

I think you have it wrong. The GOPe and dumbocraps are on the same team. With American politics totally polarized, Independents are no longer the mushy middle; they are people fed up with leftist Rats and GOPe.

[CorporateStepsister]

The political parties are just one big Mandarin class; instead of moving up through talent, people are required to be toadies of the political class.

[discostu]

No, they’re still the mushy middle. You just need to look at the “leaning” poll, people still have liberal and conservative bents in about the same percentages, but they’re no long finding a home in their party. I know lots of libs that are as sick of Obama as we are, just for completely different reasons.