March 18, 2010

Anti-incumbent Intentions Are Real

anti-incumbent-table.gifThe PEW research group provided an excellent history of anti-incumbent sentiment polls, demonstrating that 2010 is shaping up to be a big anti-incumbent election year.

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November 6, 2008

Anti-Incumbent Voters, Alive, Well, and Growing.

From Michigan's Supreme Court race to the many incumbent losses in the House of Representatives, to the incumbent losses in the Senate (Oregon's Smith, N. Carolina's Dole, New Hampshire's Sununu), the anti-incumbent vote made its presence very visible in this election. It was decidedly an anti-incumbent vote against the GOP. However, both major parties can no longer ignore the power of the independent voters (6% of whom decided the Democratic direction of this race), nor the power of voters exercising their right and obligation to vote out incumbents when government disappoints the voters.

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