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.
America's Watchtower 
I touched on this topic in an article on the morning after Republicans won the New Jersey and Virginia governorships. Independent voters are becoming more and more important to both parties. President Obama and the Democrats can ignore them, but it will be to their own peril. the same goes for the Republicans. Ignore them and we will not regain control of Congress in time to stand against Obama’s agenda.
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They do hold the key, poth parties would be wise not to abandon them. But more and more voters appear to be frustrated than ever before. We could see a huge anti-incumbant turnout next year.
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The middle of the road voters are turned off by the far left agenda of Obama and his Chicago mob. Those in the american center are not politically active for the most part and most can be easily swayed by slick politicians. The independents that are moving from Obama are certainly up for grabs and weak half measures from conservatives will not win them. They know a strong candidate when they see one and in the last election Obama showed that quality while McCain couldn’t help being the RINO he is. Republicians must show strong conservative values in order to win in 2010. This country leans right and all the polls show that. A weak moderate conservative stance will not play with most voters.
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I think you are right, when given the coice between a Democrat and a Democrat-lite the voters chose the real thing.
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Whatever it takes to get back in office, right?
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How bad is it for the Dems?
A new Quinnipiac University Poll paints a bleak picture for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
The poll shows former Republican U.S. Congressman Rob Simmons leading Dodd 49% to 38%. The poll also found former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon winning against Dodd 43% to 41%.
Getting whipped by the WWE.
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These people are ripe for the picking.
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Do you think these low numbers with Independents is the reason Obama did the Fox News interview?
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I think it plays a large part. Obama is preaching to the choir when he goes around on all of the other outlets. If he wants to court a wider range of voters he has to go on a network they watch. If his approval rating was still 65% with large independent support I doubt he would have appeared on Fox. Perhaps his arrogance has cost him this time.
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Think you are right Mr Pink Eyes, Obama sees his numbers sinking and is aiming his remarks at a larger group. That said, I feel he will NOT moderate his agenda and herein lies his weakness and the slump in the polls.
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I understand your meaning about the importance of the independents but isn’t it time to start thinking in terms of Conservative vs everything else?
Democrat, Republican, independent or liberal they are all moderate which is to say anywhere from sympathetic to liberal causes to down right liberal.
There are Democrats who are conservative and feel like the Democratic party has been taken over by Liberals and there are Republicans who feel like the party is being taken over by moderates. I think a moderate is just “liberal light”.
Read the book “America’s Thirty Years War” by Balint Vazsonyi and you will see what I mean.
I think it’s the Conservative independents that is leaving Obama in droves.
It may be they didn’t know how conservative they were until Obama and his cronies gave them something to compare themselves to.
Before then they were in warm water. Obama turned the heat up way to fast and now all the frogs are jumping out.
Obama is the best thing that ever happened to the Conservative Movement.
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You’all are about as Independent as Karl Rove.
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For sure. I was linked to this site by Google search for independent voter. My topic asks what has been the growth or loss of independent registrations since
2008, and they steer me to this site: another bunch of phoney neos. You need to change your keywords. How about “a_shole” or “bull_hit artist”?
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I just wrote about the numbers in a poll, you can ignore these numbers if you want, and I hope the Democrats do as well– because they will be ignoring them at their own peril.
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I looked at the page source and could find no keywords. It must have been the headline that drew Google (and me) in here. Hey, sit around and take shots at Obama all day, pontificate all you want. That’s your right. But this is a total opinion sheet, there is nothing objective about it. And if you look at some of the comments, Jesus H. Christ, these people are taking up where your imagination lets off.
The fact is that the lunatic left and the far right are the reasons independent registrations have skyrocketed. Americans can put up with only so much until they figure out a way around the problem. The independent sacrifices his place in the daisy chain in order to act as a check, bring some sense to the table. As our friends the Democrats are finding out, that door swings both ways.
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A good headline makes all the difference! Yes, this is an opinion blog, I have never claimed it was anything but that. Every poll I have seen shows independents moving away from Obama. I was simply writing my opinion on what that means and how I think the administration will react.
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Here is the information I was looking for when Google sent me here.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110137/mccain-now-winning-majority-independents.aspx
The shift to independent registration that occurred in 2008 included many Republicans who had enough. Obama has been a disappointment to many of them, no big surprise. The left, no less selfish, bullheaded, and ignorant than the right wing, just in their own way, had no concept of how to cope with an influx of moderates.
(I was one of those Republican moderates, but I bailed out when Jeb was elected Governor of Florida. Now, look at all the attention we indies are getting. It’s delightful, and it will last until one of the major parties implodes. At that time,
we’ll need a new strategy. Until that time, both extremes are screwed and we are loving it.
The Report of the 9-11 Commission is a hoax.
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Great stuff. americaswatchtower.com is great.
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Independent voters are necessary in this form of government. Political parties are not. As proof of that, consider that there were no organized political parties in the United
States until the election of 1800. Compare what took place during the 24 years when independent voters controlled the government and what has taken place since the Republican-Democrat Party took over in 1800. The worst disaster in American history took place after Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren organized the present day Democratic Party and engaged in a campaign to convince the American people that political parties were necessary. Without independent voters, the partisan divide over slavery made war inevitable. The more people who register independent at the present time, the better it will be for America. What would solve the present difficulties would be ballot access for independent voters, or the ability for independent voters to become candidates for office, the prevention of which is the one thing on which the two major parties agree and the one thing on which they will still work together. At 43% of the voting force, independent voters now outnumber the largest party. We need to get it to 53% so that independent voters outnumber both major parties. Encourage independent voter registration. Or to put it another way, as President George Washington advocated, discourage political parties.
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You are correct, the founders were afraid that they would splinter into “factions,” they never wanted people to be labeled by party. As a matter of fact it was a grave insult to be called a “party man.” George Washington even warned against parties in his farewell address. The founders also thought it was wrong to campaign for a political position, as you said Andrew Jackson was the first presidential candidate to campaign openly for the presidency.
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