2010 Elections, no one is safe

Recent trends in voter elections seem to indicate that the public may be shying away from the party in power right now, a recent poll shows that anyone who is an incumbent needs to be worried.

Fall of 2010 will be the mid-term elections and while Republicans are hoping to gain seats not everything looks so favorably towards the GOP. A poll released Friday from Fox News indicates that the American public might be fed up with just about everyone. The poll released showed that 42 percent of those polled looked favorably upon Democrats and Republicans. Those who looked unfavorably were almost as close with 28 percent looking unfavorably upon Democrats and 46 percent upon Republicans. Recent wins in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey aren't spelling great things for the Republicans either. It seems like change, no matter who it is might be the way the American voter is leaning. The Tea Party Movement was viewed by 35 percent as favorable and only 22 percent as unfavorable. The only problem was that four out of ten voters either have never heard of the group or couldn't give an opinion one way or another. What the mid-term election may totally boil down to is the independent voters. In the most recent three big Republican victories it was the independent voters that helped carry them to victory and not their own Republican bloc voters. President Obama campaigned to become president on a platform of change and that maybe exactly what he has brought to D.C. While he has worked to make changes in his first year the political landscape has grasped the concept of change as well and with the independent voters as well as the Tea Party Movement, November could lead to more changes for Washington.