The rules have changed: Independents strongly trending to GOP

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Washington Examiner:

The rules have changed: Independents strongly trending to GOP
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
09/20/10 8:05 AM EDT

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.'"