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Partisan divide, or shrinking GOP?
Ben Smith's Blog —
... The pollster seems open to that explanation, which -- in its political form -- is the lesson that wrecking the opposition party is preferable even to bipartisan harmony. ...
Chris Weigant: Obama Should Be Ashamed Only Two-Thirds Approve Of Him
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... silver cloud was that he is the "most polarizing president ever!" They focus in like a laser beam on a Pew Research poll which shows, in essence, that the Republican Party is shrinking down to its core base of very conservative people. Party identification and satisfaction with the Republican Party is at an all-time low, so it's not that hard to understand that whoever's left is going to be pretty committed to the cause, because all the moderates have left. But although this is the logical conclusion to draw from the data, some pundits on the right are trying to shoehorn ...
Quote Of The Day: Is Glenn Beck Becoming A Patron Saint Of The Republican Party?
The Moderate Voice —
... danger now: by embracing some of talk radio’s more alarmist and extreme narratives, language and assumptions it could continue to lose independent voter support and whatever number of RINOS it still has. This could create a solid coalition for Obama of Democrats (he already has huge approval among them), independents, and more moderate Republicans (who many believe are actually now describing themselves as independents). Some claim Obama is polarizing, but others contend the GOP is shrinking. ...
