Very interesting in an election year:
In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.
Currently, 35.5% of American adults view themselves as Democrats. That’s down from 36.0 a month ago and from 37.8% in October. Prior to December, the lowest total ever recorded for Democrats was 35.9%, a figure that was reached twice in 2005.
The people dis-affiliating with the Democrats are not going to the GOP, but seem to be showing up in the Independent number. What this means is that they are up for grabs, with the GOP having the advantage because it hasn’t so recently disillusioned these people. If the GOP can craft a good message for the campaign season and stick to its guns then there is a chance for a major, long-term shift in American politics.
To take advantage of this will require the GOP to go a bit revolutionary for 2010. The people are, by and large, tired of business-as-usual politics. The reason Obama won back in 2008 was because he presented himself as the antidote for our sick politics. The facts about him where then with held from the American people by a combination of MSM devotion to Obama crossed with McCain’s unwillingness to really engage on that level. This, though, has worked out in the long run very badly for Obama and the Democrats – by deceiving their way to victory in 2008, they’ve now shown the American people that they’ve been had. And the people don’t like that. A bit of honesty in 2008 and Obama still might have won, although by a much narrower margin…but now the fat is in the fire for Obama and his Democrats.
Can we do this? Can we Republicans and conservatives take advantage of what is being offered to us? Only time will tell.
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