America shifts left
Christopher at From the Left has penned an article which points out that Republicans have a new reason to be scared.
According to Gallup, party strength by state in 2008 shows a dramatic swing toward the Democrats.
The accompanying map shows party strength by state for 2008, ranging from states that can be considered solidly Democratic (a Democratic advantage in party identification of 10 percentage points or more) to those that can be considered solidly Republican (a Republican advantage in party identification of 10 percentage points or more). States in which the partisan advantage is less than 5 points in either direction are considered "competitive."
As you can see from the map, there are four "solid Republican" states and a lone "leans Republican" state. Twenty-nine states are "solid Democratic" with six "leans Democratic". The remaining ten states are "competitive".
Even if all ten "competitive states" were to swing to the right, that would leave fourteen "Republican states" to twenty-nine "Democratic" states. Not to mention the six that lean Democrat.
Not that Republicans will learn anything from this information.
As President Barack Obama tries to win over reluctant Republicans on his economic stimulus plan, a slim majority of the American public wants to see Congress pass the roughly $800 billion package of new government spending and tax breaks. According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking on Tuesday, 52% of the nation's adults are in favor of Congress passing the plan and 37% are opposed, while 11% have no opinion<.
With 52% of American adults being in favor of the economic stimulus package...not a single Republican congressman voted for it. Not one.
While I have my problems with the Democratic party, I am very happy that more and more American's realize that the Republican party doesn't have their best interests at heart. Regardless of what FOX News claims, the country is now leaning more to the left.
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Is that a pendulum I see swinging to the left? I firmly believe that the definitive blow will be dealt in 2010. Yet, I do not put anything past these liars and their propensity for deceit, all in the name of "winning".
The Goppers are in a pretty vicious death cycle. As they drive reasonable voters away from them, their core consists of more and more knuckle-dragging wingtards. So anyone who aspires to rise up in the Republican Party has to pander to an increasingly narrow base of racist, homophobic, anti-intelligent off-products of brother and sister. The correct "face" of modern Gopperdom is a dope-addicted pedophile and a white trash racist religious extermist from Alaska, and that's no accident; they are legitimate representations of the modern Republican Party.
The Republican Party has put their image into quite a small box. When you have terms like "RINO" as part of the GOP language, people are going to feel excluded and become a part of a party that is more inclusive.
DB: To be fair, I have seen the term DINO as well. Both parties are guilty of that behavior.
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