Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low

[applegrove]

Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low
rasmussenreports.com
Fri Sep 1, 10:46 AM ET

Via Huffington Post


Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low

"The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years. Just 31.9% of American adults now say they're affiliated with the GOP. That's down from 37.2% in October 2004 and 34.5% at the beginning of 2006. These results come from Rasmussen Reports tracking surveys of 15,000 voters per month and have a margin of sampling error smaller than a percentage point.

The number of Democrats has grown slightly, from 36.1% at the beginning of the year to 37.3% now.

Those who claim to be unaffiliated have increased to 30.8% this month. That's the highest total recorded since Rasmussen Reports began releasing this data in January 2004.

Add it all together and the Democrats have their biggest net advantage—more than five percentage points—since January 2004. In the first month of 2006, the Democrats' advantage was just 1.6 percentage points. Last month, 32.8% of adults said they were Republicans and 36.8% identified themselves as Democrats.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20060901/pl_rasmussen/partisantrends20060901

[applegrove]

1. People who don't like Bush are not necessarily heading to the Dems.

We have to fight this election (or you do - I'm from Can) as a big tent.

[Greeby]

2. Good sign

:toast:

[applegrove]

7. Yes.. though I was surprised to know he was doing badly in his first year.

[BOSSHOG]

3. They are like Formosan termites in the French Quarter

Totally lacking any value except to eat infrastructure. They cost a fortune to get rid of but they do reproduce and return and their sole reason for living is to destroy.

[applegrove]

8. Good analogy. They are reporting infrastructure is falling apart. Makes

you wonder if that is the plan. Force Dem presidents to fight deficits while when they are in power they spend and do politics..not governance.

[Warpy]

4. I won't be happy until it's down to the super rich and selfish

and the real religious crazies out there. That should make it about 20%, because we've been cursed with a superabundance of religious nutbags in this country. They're outnumbered, but they're out there.

At that point, it will be obvious to everyone that it's devolved into an anti American party of hate and nothing else.

Right now, perfectly good but scared suburbanites are still considering themselves pubbie.

I feel pretty confident that the longer Stupid remains in office, the more they'll get the point.

Repuglicans are simply bad for business, bad for human beings, and bad for this country.

[applegrove]

6. Don't generalize. Super rich like Gates and Buffet will likely be voting

Democrat. They are divided too. For sure there are those 20 families who want the estate tax repealed. And if it is replaced with decent income taxes..that is not such a bad idea. But the 20 families don't want that either. Name the families. That might be a better idea. Perhaps we need a nickname for them.

[Warpy]

11. Uh, did you miss the words "and selfish?"

The families driving the GOP agenda are very few in number, probably fewer than 20. They are mostly oil and munitions, but the Waltons are in there, too.

Gates and Buffett and a few more realize that this idiotic fiscal agenda is going to kill the goose that laid their golden eggs, and they're right.

[applegrove]

12. I took it to mean that selfish people in general were voting Repuke.

That is one generalization that works for me.

... As you were!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Embarrassed to be Repuke

don't blame em...
but don't trust em either.

The only count that matters are the
Democratic votes in November.

(the overwhelming Democratic votes)

[applegrove]

9. Yes. They say the solid left is only 25%. Solid GOP 35%. The rest

are moderates. And that doesn't even include the 35% who never vote.

We have to have a big tent. We have to.

[applegrove]

10. The main message of this is that Dems cannot afford to be complacent.

Dems must fight hard for every moderate vote.. and fight hard for the 35% who never bother to show up at the polls election day.