They tend to be more educated and more affluent than those who stayed with the GOP.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A strong majority of the switchers, 67 percent, also described themselves as in favor of abortion rights.
They also were more likely to characterize their decision to leave the GOP as the result of changes in the party's positions, rather than changes in their own political views -- 37 percent to 21 percent. By a wide margin, 67 percent, the respondents cited former President Bush as a "very important" catalyst for their decision to leave the party. Fifty-four percent cited the Iraq war.
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Talking about the Republicans in Congress becoming born-again fiscal conservatives, Skippy at Enjoy Every Sandwich (a blog I've recommended to you before) had this to say:
Regarding the way the, as you put it, Right-Wing Echo Chamber was suddenly hailing their new-found champions:
"To all the asshole bloggers out there celebrating this, I’d ask you to stop being as fucking dumb as Glenn Beck. Your current heroes in Congress are the same cocksuckers who were punching each other in the head to be photographed applauding as President Bush put all the money in a big pile and set it on fucking fire."
There's more that I think you'd enjoy reading...
http://www.skippystalin.com/?p=1666
Come for the Bush rants, stay for the porn stars, ruminations about G. Gordon Liddy and speculations on @nal technique.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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