Independents Moving Quickly to the GOP

Some top pollsters are seeing a dramatic shift of independents to the GOP - even if they don't like them that much:

Douglas Schoen and Heather R. Higgins are in today's Wall Street Journal with massive new evidence that the center has shifted fundamentally to the Right as independents are going strongly Republican.

"Today, independents say they lean more toward the Republican Party than the Democratic Party, 50% to 25%, and that the Republican Party is closer to their views by 52% to 30%. This movement comes in spite of independents' generally negative views of the GOP—a majority of independents (54%) view the Republicans unfavorably, compared to 39% who have a favorable impression," Schoen and Higgins said.

And, they add, "the poll also revealed that 48% of independents were either 'sympathetic to or supporters of the tea party.'"

What independents want the GOP to do is essentially what it has for decades promised to do but rarely delivered when in power:

"More generally, independents made clear in the survey what they want candidates to do: Decrease the size and scope of government, cut spending and taxes, balance the budget, reduce the federal debt, reduce the power of special interests and unions, repeal and replace the health-care legislation, and decrease partisanship," Schoen and Higgins said.

Voters have had a primer in big government since Obama took office and they clearly don't like it. It's not working, the massive spending hasn't fixed anything, and the new burdensome government programs promise only continued debt, more bureaucracy, and poorer service. The liberal theories don't work when put into actual practice.

Those same independents that put Obama over the top in 2008 will decimate his party in 2010.