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1 posted on 05/02/2009 2:33:13 PM PDT by lewisglad
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In 2009, 35 percent proclaim themselves Democrats, while Republican identification has slipped badly to 22 percent -- opening up a 13-point gap.

So who wants to be a member of the big spenders party owned and operated off of wall street. This story says 12+ percentage see the GOP as Democrat lite.

2 posted on 05/02/2009 2:39:33 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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Another nonsensical ‘analysis’ of the Republicans in 2009, this one from Mark Shields who is no friend of the party.

Not a credible source or analyst.


4 posted on 05/02/2009 2:44:00 PM PDT by Will88
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“Hurl alert”? If Republicans don’t recognize that they’re turning into a regional party and do something about it they’ll never recover. This doesn’t mean compromising on our core fiscal values, which should be able to have as much appeal in Connecticut as in Utah, but it does mean eschewing messages like Sarah Palin’s “pro-America areas” of the country comment.


5 posted on 05/02/2009 2:48:44 PM PDT by Arguendo
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What a nutty article. We all know very well that the red state/blue state dichotomy is true down to the county level, and that reveals there are still vast stretches of this country that are Republican, and small dots that are Democrat.

You get a good, deadly flu epidemic underway and those dots are toast!

6 posted on 05/02/2009 2:48:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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In 2009, 35 percent proclaim themselves Democrats, while Republican identification has slipped badly to 22 percent -- opening up a 13-point gap.

frequently quoted, while polling showing that the generic congressional ballot now shows R43%-D41% and is ignored. That said, I agree an idea that is more inclusive, as formulated by Gerald Ford, certainly an establishment Republican, " The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything that you have," is a good starting place.

7 posted on 05/02/2009 2:49:27 PM PDT by gusopol3
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And the Dems advantage in party affiliation percentages has eroded since the November vote, down by 2.6% since December. Some Obama followers are finally looking beyond “hope and change” and are not quite so thrilled as during 2008:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/party_affiliation/party_affiliation/summary_of_party_affiliation


8 posted on 05/02/2009 2:50:14 PM PDT by Will88
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I thought Mark Shields was dead....killed in a violent crash with total stone-cold obscurity, in a Prius driven by Eleanor Clift.


9 posted on 05/02/2009 2:50:45 PM PDT by Petronski (Learn about the 'cytokine storm.')
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And Dems sawed off the South a long time ago.


18 posted on 05/02/2009 3:07:49 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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Couldn’t you find anything from Pravda?


20 posted on 05/02/2009 3:28:51 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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Don't just take his word for it. Listen to this from a prominent national Republican: "You can walk from Canada to Mexico and from Maine to Arizona without ever leaving a state with a Democratic governor. ...

Tell the DA "prominent national republican" to take the long way and stay out of Indiana!

22 posted on 05/02/2009 3:58:17 PM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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Now you know why Rush calls him Maxi Shields...


24 posted on 05/02/2009 5:34:58 PM PDT by lancer (It's near impossible to get a pig to cut his own throat...ask any Congressman.)
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In 2009, 35 percent proclaim themselves Democrats, while Republican identification has slipped badly to 22 percent -- opening up a 13-point gap.

Bush II effect. Put a real conservative in and these numbers get flipped wholesale. A couple of years of Obama-stink and people will flock in droves toward someone like Sarah Palin.

First, you have to have a conservative, then, you can make comparisons that really matter. I'll take your popularity poll and raise you one genuine American.

I'll wager in five years you'll hear nothing of gay marriage, nor will you have a flaming faggot trashing Miss USA contestants. We'll have gone through whatever the pig flu throws at us by then and Obama's response will be on record. We'll have seen major corporations taken over by government and the ill created that will also be on Obama's ledger.

The Left's pendulum swing peaked with the Caramel Messiah. They've known all along that they only had a small window of opportunity to exploit and boy, are they exploiting it. It won't last and they know it.

27 posted on 05/02/2009 6:41:38 PM PDT by budwiesest (I calls it like I see it. FUBO)
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Income Tax =Socialism

The more income tax, the more redistribution, the more the Dems will use your money to buy their votes.


28 posted on 05/02/2009 7:19:56 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (Free the Oil, Topple the Saudis. Confiscate Putins money. Disconnect Siberia.)
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We haven’t sawed off the Northeast though Goldwater joked about doing so. The Northeast has severed itself from constitutional principles.


29 posted on 05/02/2009 8:01:25 PM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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