Independent voters abandon Obama in droves

  The key to the 2010 elections lies in the independent voters. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out and I am not stating anything that isn’t probably widely known. But Barack Obama and the Democrats have to be concerned about the independent voters in 2010 and beyond.

  The independent voters swung towards Barack Obama in the 2008 election, they are the ones who in the end got Barack Obama elected. The problem for the Democrats is the fact that independent voters are abandoning Barack Obama and the other Democrats in droves. We saw the first signs of this in the elections earlier this year. Voters who supported Obama in 2008 voted for the Republicans in the recent elections. While the national Democrats tried to write this off as the elections being decided on local issues the fact is that they are souring on Barack Obama. Recent polls tell us that this is true.

  Hard line Democrat and Republican voters can be counted on to hold true in next year’s elections so the recent news on independents has to be troubling to the administration.

  Here are some recent polling results taken with independent voters:

just 14 percent of independents approve of the job Congress is doing

Democratic incumbents trailing Republicans among independent voters by double-digit margins in competitive statewide contests in places as varied as Connecticut, Ohio and Iowa

A CBS News poll Tuesday showed the president’s approval rating among unaligned voters falling to 45 percent — down from 63 percent in April.

In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell won a 65 percent to 34 percent victory over Democrat Creigh Deeds among independents in a state where President Barack Obama split the independent vote 49 percent to 48 percent against Republican John McCain just one year earlier

In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie won a 58 percent to 31 percent victory over Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine among independents — a stark contrast to Obama’s 51 percent to 47 percent win among independents in 2008

  If the independent voters continue this trend it could spell big Republican and conservative victories in 2010 and 2012. The tide is turning, independent voters are disgruntled with the Obama administration and Democrats cannot win without them.

  We can expect a continued push by Obama to implement his radical far left agenda before the 2010 elections while he still holds a majority in congress. If he fails to implement his agenda next year his chance may be lost. At least I hope that is the case.

  The administration is at a crossroads; Obama can either move to the center and try to win back disgruntled independents or he can push even harder to force his radical agenda on an unwilling American people while he still holds majorities in congress.

  As I stated above I expect him to pursue the latter course. If this is the case we have to give Obama credit for one thing, he is willing to risk his political future and he is also willing to say to hell with his and other Democrats’ re-election prospects for the chance to pass an agenda that he must obviously believe in wholeheartedly if he is willing to risk his future and his party’s future.

  We have the chance to stop him, most other Democrats may not be willing to risk their political future to pass Barack Obama’s agenda. They may be looking at these poll numbers and they may start to rethink their undying support for Obama. This is the one chance that we have to slow Obama’s agenda.

  If these numbers continue to fall at this incredible rate, support for Obama’s policies will drop within his own party as Democrats begin to look out for themselves politically. And that has to be troubling to Obama.

  We can still take this country back and return to true American ideals, we just have to hope that we can minimize the collateral damage and Democrats who long to stay in power just may be the key in doing so if they just pay attention to these latest poll numbers.

  I have focused on the Democrats in this post but the liberal RINO Republicans had better take heed in these numbers also, they are not safe either and we are watching them. So are the independents.