Posted on 12/09/2011 5:22:50 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
Politics is all about voter turnout and enthusiasm of the base. Trying to convert the base of one party to turn to another party is a fool’s errand. Motivating “never befores” to vote for the first time is something Obama did in 2008. He got young voters excited about his liberal policies. Of course, they were excited. Most of them are not working, attending schools using borrowed money guaranteed by the government, and have no idea how an economy works.
An ABC story is telling us that Obama is losing a million voters in key battleground states:
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 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.”
Obama did not bring in Utopia. His lofty rhetoric got smacked by economic and political reality. Young people have watched too much television where problems are solved in 30- and 60-minute bursts, counting about 8 to 15 minutes of commercials. It’s been three years, and Obama and Co., have only taken us backwards. Disillusionment has set in. Now it’s back to drugs, sex, and rock and roll, or whatever the music trend is today.
Consider these statistics:
In eight states that will be must-wins in 2012 – 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.”
It’s hard to get people enthusiastic twice when the first election did not bring out the desired results. The Republicans still have not learned this. Bob Dole and John McCain are two recent examples of lost enthusiasm. Hopefully the present crop of Republican candidates can take advantage what ABC is reporting about the Democrats, but I’m not optimistic.
The independent vote still could move toward Obama, but the 2010 election results might suggest otherwise:
Obama snagged 52 percent of unaffiliated voters in 2008, but those independents flocked to Republicans in the 2010 midterms with 56 percent opting for a GOP candidate. Between 2008 and 2010, there was a 27-point shift in which party independents chose.
“Independent voters have been the deciding factor in the last two major elections,” said Omar Ali, the national spokesman for IndependentVoting.org. “And they are going to, more than likely, determine the 2012 presidential election.”
American voters don’t light to be lectured. Jimmy Carter did it with his “malaise” speech, and Obama’s done it with Americans are lazy. In the end, however, what the Republicans do will make the biggest difference. Most voters vote for a candidate. If the GOP believes it can win in 2012 based on people voting against Obama, the Grand Old Party is going to lose.
All a Republican has to do is show Europes issues. Politicians promised too much without ever saving anything for these promises and the result will be disasterous.
Make sure you vote!!! Obama has to go!!
Vote your heart in the primary.
Vote A B O in the general election.
F U B O !!!!!
Tell the damned GOP that if they want to be in power, they had better damned well give us a candidate that represents conservative values.
No damned RINOs!
No damned Mitt Romney!
Got it???!!!
I would vote for son of sam or Joran vandersloot over Obama at this point.
Why not vote for Arlen Specter? He used to be GOP, before he switched parties.
Isn't that what you get with RINOs?
Screw that, no thanks!
We need to take the GOP to a quiet, peaceful meadow and mercifully put it down and bury it. We can pick up a new party and train it to be the loyal pet a political party is supposed to be. Let's make sure the new one doesn't consistantly piss on us like the Republican Party!
If it were anyone but thugbama fine, but sorry, now is not the time for purity tests. I would vote for madoff or Charles Manson over MaoBama at this juncture.
dig up kadafi or Arafat and I would go for that over obama as well.
So if Kerry runs as the GOP candidate you’re voting Kerry.
Good for you. You’re the reason that Conservatives have no representation.
The Progressives are pushing forth to remaking our nation into the new Soviet Union and you’re carrying their luggage.
But at least you’re voting, as meaningless as your elitist owners have made it...
So who is your choice that has better than 5 percent in the polls?
I might hold my nose and vote Perry or Gingrich, but I haven’t decided. Cain seemed marginally acceptable.
Unfortunately, my cat has more conservative credentials than the GOP’s favorites!
My personal favorite was and is Sarah. Have no doubt she would have easily won the GOP nod. that being said, my heart says MB or Paul due to domestic issues.
I hate mittens, don’t trust newt, am irritated by Santorum, believe perry is not reay for prime time, and believe. Huntsman lacks a killer instinct.
that being said - I could care less in the end as I view Obama as a gun pointed to our head.
Are you willing to give my cat a chance? He's on the far right on every issue. However, he was a liberal democrat until he turned 10 days old.
Absolutely! Your cat has a 99 percent chance of being better than Obama even if we use the barometer of which cat toy she decides to play with as the policy choice.
The cat is a “he” and he likes to smack around a small, annoying dog.
Yes he did according to Big Bobby Bekell, Obama created more employment
then Bush did. The only thing this spin doesn't point out is that Obama created
more Government employees than Bush did and the private sector doesn't exist.
And if we decided policy based on which direction your cat hit the ball, that still is a 50 percent better chance than Obama since with obama we know 100 percent he will choose the wrong thing EVERY TIME.
I would vote for Jack the Ripper before O, too. I would vote for a RINO, before O.
I would vote for Jack the Ripper before O, too. I would vote for a RINO, before O.
I’ll up you - I would vote for John Wayne Gacy over Bama.
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