The Era of Obama Is Driving the repugican cabal Extinct as repugican Identification Plunges

 

If it seems like you are watching the repugican cabal vanish before your eyes, it’s because you are. According Gallup, repugican cabal identification has fallen to a 25 year low of 25%.
Gallup’s latest party identification poll found that Democratic identification has remained stable. Democratic identification has gone from 36% in 2008 to 31% today, but repugican identification has dropped in each of the last three years, until it has hit its lowest point in the 25 year history of the poll. The repugican identification reached a peak of 34% during 2004, but eroded during the shrub’s second term. By the time the shrub left office, repugican identification was down to 28%.
All of those disappointed repugicans have left the repugican cabal and deemed themselves Independents. Forty percent of those polled now identify as Independents. Of course, some of the repugicans who have departed the repugican cabal aren’t really Independent. They still vote repugican, but now they do it as an Independent. This is why Independents voting for repugican presidential candidates like Mitt Romney isn’t a surprise. It is also why the media needs to change their thinking about Independents. Independent voters are no longer neutrals, but they are more likely disaffected repugicans who have left their cabal.
The repugican decision to obstruct Obama at all costs has led to their own demise. When the repugicans became the cabal of no, they lost much of the country. The Obama era could have been one of bipartisan compromise and achievement, but repugicans rejected the validity of this president and his presidency from day one. The decision not to evolve with the country has left them taking unpopular position after unpopular position just so that they can say no to Obama.
The overall tone of the country’s political identification is decidedly more left. Contrary to what repugicans like to claim, America is not a wingnut country. For the third straight year, the nation has identified more with Democrats than repugicans. When Independents were included in the partisan leanings question, Democrats maintained their six point advantage from last year, and led repugicans 47%-41%.
Not only is the repugican cabal facing extinction, but the country itself continues to move left. The nation is leaving the repugican cabal behind, and as the repugican cabal has gotten smaller, the lunatic fringe has taken control. The only thing saving the repugican cabal from total irrelevance at the federal level is their control of the House of Representatives. Of course that House of Representatives is the least popular Congress in history, which speaks volumes about the condition of the repugican cabal.
America is moving on without the repugican cabal. The United States truly has become no country for the old white wingnut men who are the majority constituency of the repugican cabal, as President Obama is leading a new era in American politics.