I had another post planned for today, but I just saw something in my Facebook feed that made me do a double take. It’s from a post at Down With Tyranny, a blog run by my friend Howie Klein. This post is not his, however; it’s written by Ken, whose last name I won’t share, because he doesn’t share it on the blog.
To repeat: Dems and R's don't "swing" a lump of voters back and forth; they compete for different "independents"
Ken apparently takes issue with the very concept of the swing voter, and asserts the following, in a rehash of one of his previous posts on the same blog:
(I disagree with the assumption) that the same voters, not to be confused with the same percentages, flipped D to R. Some did, no doubt. But to a large extent, it wasn't the same independents in the D column in 2008 and the R column in 2010. An awful lot of the "D independents" from 2008 stayed home in 2010, and "R independents" who hadn't shown up in 2008 returned to the polls in 2010.
Though the above is extremely misguided, Ken then asserts the following:
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