Reply #2: You're going to make the doomsdayer's heads 'splode.

[Atman]

You point out a very valid problem with so many of these polls -- who cares if the entire GOP is "energized?" I bet that even our 60% is bigger than their 100%. So-called independents are another problem, though. They're much like "libertarians," in that not that many of them actually exist in practice. The majority of them are just a)Repubs pretending they never voted for Bush in 2000/2004 and b)Dems who are afraid they'll wind up looking like those stupid Bush supporters if Obama's plans don't work out. When the rubber meets the road, most of them will gravitate back to the Red or Blue column as they always have.

It's just cooler to say your an indi these days. The fear we should have is that a snakeoil salesman like Joe Scab really kicks up the "Indi" torch and hoodwinks voters into believing he's not actually a neocon-loving right wing extremist. Remember, it was just last season that Scab was admonishing all his guests to "STOP TALKING ABOUT RECESSION! THERE IS NO RECESSION!" The man's an idiot, but he's got the right-wing media machine behind him, a three-hour infomercial every morning, and he's a shameless liar who thinks he can get away with murder. Perfect GOP material.

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