Obama’s a Magician: Makes 850,000 Voters Flee the Democratic Party in 8 Key Swing States

New post on Scotty Starnes's Blog Obama's a Magician: Makes 850,000 Voters Flee the Democratic Party in 8 Key Swing States by Scotty Starnes 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: President Obama's uphill battle to re-election 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 theDemocratic Party 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 – 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>>> Scotty Starnes | December 8, 2011 at 8:30 AM | Tags: Democratic Party, President Obama, swing states, Third Way | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-6e4 Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/obamas-a-magician-makes-850000-voters-flee-the-democratic-party-in-8-key-swing-states/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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