Republican popularity has improved. Dems has gone down. Independants are moving from Dems to Reps. Now this may be mostly due to the democrats ignoring the people and steamrolling everyone, or it may be because of Reps standing up for what they were supposed to be standing up for the last decade, but who knows.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson