In the News: Obama Tied with "Generic" Republican for 2012

President Obama could conceivably lose to a Republican, any Republican, if a presidential election were held today.

From Gallup Polls:

Registered voters are about equally divided as to whether they would more likely vote to re-elect Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, or vote for the Republican candidate.

From Politico:

But among independent voters, 45 percent would back a Republican and only 31 percent would favor the president. Twenty-four percent of independents are not sure if they would vote for Obama or a Republican candidate.

The gap among independents is similar to what Democrats have experienced in the recent statewide races in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts where Republicans were able to win by piecing together a coalition that included people who voted for the president. Obama won independent voters by 8 percentage points in 2008, by a spread of 52 percent to 44 percent, according to network exit polls.

Which all leads to the conclusion that independent voters are now the driving force of politics. Americans, fed up with both parties and party politics, government waste, and government power-mongering, reject the politics of leftist extremism - led by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.

Obama attracted the independents in 2008 and easily won the presidential election. Yet, since that time, Obama's attraction has faded and the surreal politics of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have circumscribed the real agenda of these leftists, leaving Americans out in the cold.

It's interesting to me that Obama's numbers now indicate a dead heat with a generic Republican. How will he fare in 2012 against a Republican who represents the largest ideology in the US - a conservative Republican? Scott Brown's looking more like the hope and change guy than Obama's failing presidency.