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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama’s a
Magician: Makes 850,000 Voters Flee the Democratic Party in 8 Key
Swing
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Obama voters are putting down that Hope and Change Kool Aid. Not only is
Obama a magician at making money disappear, he is also making Democrats
disappear.
>From ABC
>News<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/voters-flee-democratic-party-in-key-swing-states/>
:
President Obama’s uphill battle to
*re-election<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-sets-campaign-theme-middle-class-stake-15100004>
* is getting steeper.
A report released today by the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that
more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled
the*Democratic
Party<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee-chairman-2012-is-going-to-be-a-historic-year/>
* since Obama won election in 2008.
“The numbers show that Democrats’ path to victory just got harder,” said
Lanae Erickson, the report’s co-author. “We are seeing both an increase in
independents and a decrease in Democrats and that means the coalition they
have to assemble is going to rely even more on independents in 2012 than it
did in 2008.”
Amid frustrating partisan gridlock and unprecedentedly low party-approval
ratings, the number of voters registering under a major party is falling
fast, but it is also falling disproportionately.
In eight states that will be *must-wins in
2012<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/2012Election/>
* – Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North
Carolina and Pennsylvania – Democrats lost 5.4 percent of their registered
voters while Republicans lost 3.1 percent. The number of independent voters
in those states jumped 3.4 percent.
“People are frustrated and the way you tune out in American politics is
that is you drop the label of the two parties,” said Steven Jarding, a
Harvard public policy professor and Democratic campaign strategist. “The
danger for Obama in this is he is not only going to have to capture them
but capture more of them because there are less Democratic voters.”
Continue
reading>>><http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/voters-flee-democratic-party-in-key-swing-states/>
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