Party registration graph from 2000 - the country was not divided right in the middle

[The Count]

http://swivel.com/graphs/show/8244894
Sure, the number of unaffiliates is staggering, but there goes the myth of half and half....The 2000 elections result is just there, in living color.

[Botany]

1. And he bush "won" 2004 how?

If the figures are right registered voters in America break down
along these lines: (2000 #s)

44.4% democrat
33.0% republican
22.6% indie



Guess it was that great get out the vote drive by the repugs....

Besides living in Ohio and seeing "it" with my own eyes I keep wondering
where the hell did bush come up w/ 20 million "new vote" from 2000?

Giving him 100% of his 2000 base vote all lived until 2004 and all voted
for bush in that election.

When the fuck is the truth going to come out? The #s just don't add up.
In 2000 and 2004 the #s just do not favor the repugs

[The Count]

4. Bingo! There were all the articles on Dem registrations twice the GOP

Funny how those graphs only emerge 7 years after the memes...

[blm]

6. Plus, media polls would always lean right because they claimed GOP had more

voters than the Democrats. Remember their samplings would always skew Republican in 2000, 2002 and 2004?

Corpmedia has been complicit in the deception for many years now.

[vireo]

2. Omits voters in open primary states

where there is no registration by party.

[The Count]

5. Which are but a handful. Point is, the 2 parties were never "equal"

[vireo]

7. Actually it's 20 states

We have to look at polling data to get a nationwide picture of party affiliation. Interestingly, it also shows an 8% Democratic lead in 2000. Harris polling from 2004 shows the Dem edge to have shrunk, but I would like to see more recent figures. I suspect it may have returned to pre-Bush levels.

U.S. adults are still almost equally divided between Democrats (34%) and Republicans (31%), with the Democrats maintaining a very small advantage. One quarter of all adults consider themselves Independents.

These are some of the results of Harris Poll surveys of a total of 10,012 U.S. adults conducted by telephone by Harris Interactive® between January and December 2004.

The Harris Poll® also found that conservatives continue to outnumber liberals by 36 to 18 percent but that the largest number of people think of themselves as moderates (41%). The remarkable thing about these numbers is how little they have changed over the past 30 to 40 years. Harris Interactive data over four decades show that the average numbers of moderates have remained at 40 or 41 percent, and that conservatives have only varied between 32 and 38 percent, while liberals have remained at a steady 18 percent since the 1970s.

However, the long term trend for party identification has changed over the last 40 years, with the Democratic lead declining from 21 percentage points in the 1970s, to 11 points in the 1980s, seven points in the 1990s, and (so far) five points in this decade.

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=548

[vireo]

8. I should have searched a little further

As suspected, the Democratic lead has widened:

Every year, The Harris Poll® combines the results of its nationwide telephone polls conducted throughout the year to measure party identification and political philosophy in an effort to accurately report on the modest changes from year to year. The Harris Polls conducted by telephone in 2006 show the Democrats continuing to increase their lead over Republicans in party identification. Currently, the Democrats’ lead over the Republicans is nine percentage points, up from six percentage points in 2005 and three points in 2004. This is now the largest Democratic lead since 1998, when it was also nine percentage points.

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=727

[HockeyMom]

3. I joined the Democratic Party

this past November having been an Independent for 30 years. Thought it was about time I faced reality, as my 20 something daughters did before me.

There is no way in hell that any Republican represents me in any way, shape, or form.