Nice pie chart:

http://edition.cnn.com/POLITICS/pollingcenter/individual/index.html#2629

- Doesn't look too good for the GOP considering that the most popular candidate only has 16% of the support.

Btw: When's the first GOP primary?

I'd run, but I won't be 35 till the 2016 election.

Err wait:

I must admit that I haven't read the poll properly...

Can someone explain what "second leading choice" means?

sorry thrax, Mark Warner's got that locked up ;-)

I shook Warner's hand at Peanutfest in Suffolk a couple years ago. Pretty cool guy.

I really enjoyed Huckabee's latest interview on The Daily Show, extended version.

Rob in advance if you want to know why the right loses big next election look no further: http://kdice.com/discussion/topics/44804527?

veta were you alive like 6 month ago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2010

"The Republican Party gained 63 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, recapturing the majority, and making it the largest seat change since 1948 and the largest for any midterm election since the 1938 midterm elections. The Republicans gained six seats in the U.S. Senate, expanding its minority, and also gained 680 seats in state legislative races"

all jokes aside... the dems got fuckin SLAUGHTERED.

and not much has changed since then...

just like not much changed from 2008 when time magazine was wondering if republicans were extinct. If you consult any political scientist today he'll tell you we're living in a time of great polarization and as a consequence there will continue to be a successive revolt on each party each election until the polarization is abated. Study some politics jesse, it's your best bet anyway since being a lawyer sucks.

At the risk of sounding condescending it is exactly the reason I cited above that voters will turn from the GOP in 2012. Furthermore, even if you didn't take into account all the polarization in the country, the main demographic differences in the 2010 election from the 2008 elections are enough to account for the GOP victory -- something like 20% of the 2008 voters aged 18-34 showed up for 2010. I don't have the numbers in front of me atm but I remember hearing some pundit saying something along the lines of "if every 18-34 year old who voted in the 2008 election voted in the 2010 election the republicans would not have even won the majority of the seats up for grabs." Certainly this is all anecdotal but at the same time it makes you realize, after familiarizing yourself with voting demographics, if the democrats manage to mobilize the youth again it will be another tumultuous period for republican leadership.

First thing on google for demographics: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-11-15/news/bs-ed-schaller-20101115_1_obama-surge-voters-first-time-voters-tea-party

It's all kind of a moot point anyway since the republicans are ultimately still the minority party in the country despite their "winning big". Goes to show how bad they fucked up huh?

Last thing, and it seems of pertinence to our discussion: how come there's so much relative orthodoxy among conservatives and so little for libertarians/liberals? Well recent studies have found that the conservative psyche is generally rooted in dogma and absolutism. That is to say conservatives stick to what they learn early, never question it, and stick to it.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/09/10/study-finds-liberal-conservative-difference-in-brain-functioning/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8228192/Political-views-hard-wired-into-your-brain.html