Chuck Norris (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103) (granted, a nut-job celebrity past his prime) and Rick Perry (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/governor-says-texans-want-secede-union-probably-wont/) (Governor of Texas and elected official of millions) have suggested secession as a possibility.
All this talk of divisiveness. Sure, the poll numbers show a broad divide between Republicans and Democrats on Obama's administration. They also show that self-identified Republicans are decreasing in polls, self-identified "independents" are increasing. Obama's numbers with self-identified independents numbers are running only slightly lower (if not, in some cases, in parallel) than with self-identified Democrats. Sounds to me like moderates are fleeing the Republican party and identifying as "independents," which would skew the Republican numbers down. So not so divisive...
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Date: 2009-04-16 05:57 am (UTC)Chuck Norris (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103) (granted, a nut-job celebrity past his prime) and Rick Perry (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/governor-says-texans-want-secede-union-probably-wont/) (Governor of Texas and elected official of millions) have suggested secession as a possibility.
All this talk of divisiveness. Sure, the poll numbers show a broad divide between Republicans and Democrats on Obama's administration. They also show that self-identified Republicans are decreasing in polls, self-identified "independents" are increasing. Obama's numbers with self-identified independents numbers are running only slightly lower (if not, in some cases, in parallel) than with self-identified Democrats. Sounds to me like moderates are fleeing the Republican party and identifying as "independents," which would skew the Republican numbers down. So not so divisive...