text: That's funny. Considering the numbers in Congress and the number of states under a GOP governor, talk for awhile now has been on whether the Dems are in trouble.
  
  To further exacerbate that, the left has a socialist element growing in influence and pushing the party more to the left. The independent vote is made up primarily of people who are near the middle, or moderates. If either party leans too far, to the right, or to the left, they'll lose a large portion of the independent voter group.
  
  Who knows, it might evolve into a fracture of the Dem party sometime down the road. I think a good portion of Dems don't want a part of going that far to the left.