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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
Since a question was posed earlier to liberals, I have a counter question for right wing conservatives. It seems that all far right conservatives like to label anyone who disagrees with ANY of their positions as a "liberal". It also seems as if they are more enamored with their ideological stances than they are with actually getting things accomplished and moving the country forward. I have seen and heard many agree with rush limbaugh in hoping that our president fails. In other words their ideology, and proving themselves right is more important to them than having our country succeed. I have always been an independent voter, but have become increasingly disdainful of the far right and their seeming stranglehold on the republican party. This, of course, makes me a "liberal". My question is, how do you propose to win the presidency and congress if you are unable to get a majority of independents to vote for republicans? The strategy of alienating everyone who does not buy into the tea party, take no prisoners mentality, does not sit well with most independent voters. According to the article I will link, 40% of voters self identify as independent, while 31% identify themseves as democrat, and 27% as republican.
Record-High Number of Independent Voters Spells Trouble for Progressives and the Tea Party |
Regarding this:
"My question is, how do you propose to win the presidency and congress if you are unable to get a majority of independents to vote for republicans?"
You and many other Obama fans seem to forget that voters have a mind of their own--especially
independent voters--and
thinking democrats, republicans, and independents will vote for the PERSON they think is best, not the party!!!
The bar graph chart in this Milwaukee Journal article illustrates this best. It shows the percentages that voted for Walker in 2010 and then in the 2012 recall 2 weeks ago against the same opponent.
Over 50% of Independents, 45% of moderates, 9% of democrats, and 38% of union households voted for Walker.
This means that people think for themselves and are not so irresponsible as to vote straight party line.
Also, contrary to what many democrats assume,
there is no republican nor TEA Party monster in the voting booth, forcing the person's hand to mark only a republican's name.
Walker vs. Barrett: The sequel was a replay of the original - JSOnline