The GOP is Dying

[Doug]

DOUG
Since the 2006 elections, in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation, the Democrats have picked up 2 million more registered voters than they had in 2006. The Republicans have lost 344,000 voters in those same states. In addition, the number of unaffiliated voters dropped by 900,000.

"Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press."
See here.

Also:

Since 2006, the Democrats have added 167,000 voters in North Carolina, while the Republicans have added 36,000. The Democrats' biggest voter registration goal is in Georgia, where the Obama campaign hopes to register 500,000 voters before the election, said Dean, who has spent the past month traveling the country on a voter registration bus tour.

"The Obama folks are serious about Georgia," Dean said. Georgia has added 337,000 voters since 2006, but the state does not identify them by party affiliation.

In Pennsylvania, the Democrats have added 375,000 voters since 2006 while the Republicans have lost 117,000.

DOUG
Yes, the Republican party is dying. Today on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, conservative pundit David Brooks said that McCain is in a party that doesn't know that it needs to change. He also stated that so many Republican staffers are fed up with 8 years of George Bush (and Republican incompetence and lies, most likely--Doug's comment) that McCain is going to HAVE TO include Democrats in his administration if he wins the election. There just aren't enough Republicans to fill the vacancies at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
See the video of the "roundtable discussion" here.

[Dardedar]

DAR
I thought Obama did a very mediocre job on Snuffy this morning. He looks tired. I can't imagine working as long and as hard as a presidential candidate is expected to (and his primary was extra long). Yap yap yap, all day long the same old worn lines. It's a wonder they can keep their sanity. Then he made the (potential) major gaffe of poorly wording a response about McCain not being the one who is spreading the lie that he is a muslim. He responded (from memory): "John McCain is not the one referring to my muslim faith."

WTF? I said to myself, did Obama just say these three words in a row? "My Muslim faith." Oops. Apparently he doesn't understand how stupid and dishonest the repub's are. Half of them are sincerely so stupid they actually thought he just admitted he is a muslim, and the other half are rubbing their hands with glee because now they can make dishonest video clips making it look like he just admitted he is a Muslim.

Snuffy tried to save him but the point was lost in the noise. McCain doesn't have to call him a muslim, just as Bush doesn't have to say, word for word, that Saddam was involved in 9/11 (in fact Bush on one occasion said Saddam wasn't involved). But where did half the republicans get the idea that he was? Republican noise and bullshit machine.

D.

[Betsy]

That's exactly what I was talking about on the other thread. They use half-truths to build a mythology. And as we all know, fundamentalists are especially vulnerable to believing mythology.