Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Democrats set to pull most independent voters

MyDD provides the results from today's' the Survey USA 50-state tracking.

His conclusion:
There isn't a single corner of this nation where Democrats are not more in line with Independents than Republicans. That's a fact. That's fifty-state potential. That's a tidal wave.
Yeah, I am not surprised. The general conditions are moving towards real advantages for the Democrats.

I just wonder if the Democrats will read this and fail to make the changes necessary to effectively oppose and compete with the Republican national machine. The Democratic leadership has assumed that being closer to the opinions of the electorate would sooner or later return the Democrats to power. They didn't have to change anything; political conditions and Republican incompetence in governance (as opposed to competence in getting elected) would return the Democrats to power.

Yeah, right. There have been six Congressional elections since the Gingrich revolution of 1994, and the Democrats are still on the outside looking in. It really makes you suspect that the Republican national political machine has a lock on the elections no matter how much the public agrees with the Democrats! Dean, Pelosi and Reid better not look for salvation in this report. It is good. It is not enough.

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