The right is gripping hard...
They know the current crop of republican candidates is not going to pull democrats away from Obama, which is why they focus on the independents...
The independents aren't going to make up their mind until 2012, so all this is meaningless...
Obama is president and will be at least until 2013, and after Obama having gone through a very rough patch during a shithole economy inherited from the worst president in American history, there is still no republican that strikes fear in the heart of the dems, nor attracts the independents...
You will notice, that the repubs and right goobers never talk about any candidate...just hatred of Obama...
That isn't a winning ticket.
The dems hated Bush in 2004 as much as the repubs hate Obama, but the dems found the biggest loser in their party (Kerry) to sacrifice to Bush...
Until such time that the repubs put up a reasonable moderate republican, they are doomed...
(If Gore had wanted to be president, he would have beaten Bush in 2004, and beaten Hillary and Obama, then McNutz in 2008...)
Quote from trefoil:
Wrong interpretation.
Look at the graph: that number is better by a comfortable margin than any posted in the last year and a half of the Bush Admin.
It's a reflection of two things: the economy, and disappointment, once again, by people like me that he hasn't raked the right over the coals in the manner they very richly deserve. Some number might be disappointed independents who were hoping for a return of Clintonesque fiscal rectitude, but as I've posted before, no one should expect that again from any Dem: having been burned by Bush's squandering of Clinton's surplus, topped by Paulson's 750 billion TARP at the tail end, it'll snow in San Juan in July before any Dem hands a Republican a surplus again.
