Rise of the Independents! Analysis: State Voter Registration Statistics Show 2.5 Million Dissatisfied & Unhappy Voters, Abandoned Democratic and Republican Parties since 2008 Elections:

Rise of the Independents! Analysis: State Voter Registration Statistics Show 2.5 Million Dissatisfied & Unhappy Voters, Abandoned Democratic and Republican Parties since 2008 Elections:

By Marc Chamot

The straw that broke the camel’s back is here, finally;

“More than 2.5 million voters have left the Democratic and Republican parties since the 2008 elections, while the number of independent voters continues to grow. A USA TODAY analysis of state voter registration statistics shows registered Democrats declined in 25 of the 28 states that register voters by party. Republicans dipped in 21 states, while independents increased in 18 states.”

People are finally saying enough, and are waking up to the corruptive political machines of our times. People are fed-up with political parties, and political machines that are being dominated by one political party or another, players and benefactors, whether Democrat or Republican benefit when most don’t.

We’ve all seen it with the Kennedy clans in Massachusetts, the George Bush’s clans in Texas, the Jerry Brown clans in California, and in Chicago with the ever corruptive, Richard J Daley and his ever-corruptive and crony successors.

As in San Francisco and California, with the most corruptive Burton brothers, John and Phil, and with their Willie Brown machines, not the Jerry Brown we know, but unrelated; the African American Brown and former Speaker of the Assembly, Willie Lewis Brown who ruled over California for over thirty years with an iron fist, until voters got fed-up and enacted term limits to throw him out.

Brown and the Burton brothers, commonly called the Brown-Burton Machine, ruled and controlled Democratic races in San Francisco Bay Area and California for decades. And we’ve seen more of the same in Muskogee Oklahoma, and Fort Smith Arkansas, as is in other places; it finally took some kind of voter approved term limit s, and initiatives, to break the corruptive stranglehold and aspects of corruptive American politics these people had over their communities.

Unfortunately, as is the case with the California Burton-Brown machines, they are out of current politics, however, the cronyism and corruptions are still there, with them deeply into someone’s pockets, and lining up their pockets with wealth and are still involved, at the helm of California politics behind the scenes. 

Before Willie L. Brown was thrown out of the state assembly through voter approved term limits, and after the urging of the Fang family, Jack Davis, and Warren Hinkle, encouraged Willie to run for mayor of San Francisco.

Brown won against former police chief Frank Jordan, who the kingmakers, Fangs, Jack Davis and Warren Hinkle had placed in office a term before, presided over San Francisco as mayor, and those were one of the most turbulent and corrupt times in San Francisco’s history, benefitting the most, of course, the Fang family, Jack Davis, Hinkle and their political allies.

They turned on their former ally and friend Frank Jordan, when he wasn’t lining up their pockets with money. These guys, got rich and wealthy under Willie Brown, however, the then Hearst Corporation Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, spent years exposing all of the mayor’s corruptive acts, with those key people on top of the news and FBI investigations, mainly the Fang family.

Willie Brown, after leaving the mayor’s office after major scandals, the current owners, the Hearst’s San Francisco Chronicle, hired Brown as a paid columnist for their paper. Willie Brown could have gotten away with murder, because former President Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno with the justice department, were in full mode cover-ups for Brown and the Fang shenanigans. Imagine that!

So it is not that surprising people are getting fed-up, with political parties and they want change. But the change isn’t coming the way they want it, or it is supposed to be, so they are getting off the sinking political ship of the Democratic and Republican parties.  

    

Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves “The trend is acute in states that are key to next year's presidential race. In the eight swing states that register voters by party, Democrats' registration is down by 800,000 and Republicans' by 350,000. Independents have gained 325,000.

The pattern continues a decades-long trend that has seen a diminution in the power of political parties, giving rise to independents as Ross Perot and Ralph Naderand the popularity this year of libertarian Republican Ron Paul.

"The strident voices of both the left and the right have sort of soured people from saying willingly that they belong to one party or the other," says Doug Lewis, who represents state elections officials. "If both sides call each other scurrilous dogs, then the public believes that both sides are probably scurrilous dogs."

Registered Democrats still dominate the political playing field with more than 42 million voters, compared to 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents. But Democrats have lost the most — 1.7 million, or 3.9%, from 2008.

Democratic registration has fared worse than Republicans in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — the eight swing states with party registration. Republican losses are biggest in Nevada, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

The decline is due to a variety of factors. People move, people die, people revolt in disgust. Many are stripped from registration rolls by states seeking to remove inactive voters.

By contrast, the number of independents has grown for years and is up more than 400,000 since 2008, or 1.7%. States with big gains: Colorado, Florida, North Carolina — and Arizona, a possible target for President Obama in 2012.

The 2012 winner, says North Carolina elections director Gary Bartlett, will be "whoever is attractive to the unaffiliated voter."