[fwdude]

The poll makes no sense. How can people (supposedly independents) switch their decision to vote Democrat just because Obama won?

[C210N]

Easy. The people have been corrupted.

“...likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” B. Franklin, 1787

[Sarah Barracuda]

Id normally say this poll was complete BS but looking around, yeah its probably true. Just look around you, look at what is happening to this country. This is not the America our Founding Fathers would recognize anymore..we have become what we always feared we would become, Venezuela

[Buckeye McFrog]

How can people (supposedly independents) switch their decision to vote Democrat just because Obama won?

Everyone loves a winner. And OBL was right, people will gravitate towards the strong horse.

It is clear that with this election the country has changed and we will be living in a center-left Social Democracy for the foreseeable future. Hence a number of people around the edges of Conservatism can see the handwriting on the wall and are making their plans accordingly. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" or somesuch. Planning how to make their lives work in the new paradigm, one way or the other.

[Theoria]

Perfect sense. Just that less people[Conservatives, libertarians, etc] support the GOP. The poll is obvious.

[Uncle Miltie]

Humans are herd creatures.

But when they eventually turn on Hussein because of his failures, it will be in the same herd manner.

In the meantime, keep your powder dry.

[chris37]

That’s not what’s happening.

The GOP has not only given people not reason to vote for it, it has given people a reason to vote against it.

By its cowardly actions, the GOP’s very existence not only facilitates the demcorats everything they want and more, and also provides the democrats a scapegoat for giving it to them.

I would actually argue that it makes more sense to vote the entire GOP out of existence and just let the democrats kill this country in their name only with no one else to blame, because this country is going to die, and the only thing that ***damn GOP is doing is helping it die by putting their stupid, useless fingerprints on the murder weapon.

[Jim Noble]

“The poll makes no sense. How can people (supposedly independents) switch their decision to vote Democrat just because Obama won?”

Because the “standard model” of independents is wrong, as Obama has now proven twice.

Independents don’t respond to begging (supplicating). They want to be told, not asked. The Romney convention was a carbon copy of the Kerry convention of 2004.

Independents are (mostly) weak minded scum. They don’t think - they follow the strong horse. In the last two cycles, that was Obama. He didn’t listen to the political consultant establishment - he went hard Left. And the mushy middle followed.

The only answer to this phenomenon (except for enforcing the 22nd amendment) is to go hard Right in 2016. Romney was our Kerry.

We need to find our Obama - with or without the GOP.