10.04.12
Independent voter = Stupid voter
If current voter registration trends continue, both the Republican and Democratic parties may have a serious numbers problem.
Since President Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, the number of voters registered as independents or with a third party has surged in several key states, while those registered with both major parties have dropped off significantly. Among the six battleground states that provide monthly voter registration data (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania), all but the Buckeye State report more independent voters than four years ago.
Being an independent would make sense — and only theoretically — in the US if there was a way to mount a third party and candidate.
The new “independent voter” craze is fueled by people who don’t seem to realize things have actually gone downhill since the days of Ross Perot and John Anderson.
DD’s thesis advisor at Lehigh, in the elevator after lunch, in 1980: “John Anderson’s my man.”
That went well.
So when I am informed a vague acquaintance is going independent, or the linked trope — “both parties suck, being just two sides to the same coin, so I’m for neither,” it’s someone who’s a numbnuts.
There’s a clear choice now. Don’t be evil, as Pine View Farm recommends.
“[The] hemorrhaging of party affiliates in key states suggests that voters there are unsatisfied with the traditional Democratic and Republican operations,” reads the piece.
Or just a large group of people who are more stupid but who wish to stamp their feet in petty symbolic group annoyance.
As for Ross Perot, he is …. still whacked:
[Perot] talks about his fear of the United States being taken over [in excerpts on C-SPAN].
“If we are that weak, just think of who wants to come here first and take us over, and the last thing I ever want to see is to see this country, our country taken over because we’re so financially weak we can’t do anything and we’re moving in that direct. … We could even lose our country ….
To fluoridated water, the UN’s Agenda 21, newfangled light bulbs, the homosexual agenda? There are so many things…