Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008

[Go2Peace]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends

Partisan Trends
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008

In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.

Currently, 35.5% of American adults view themselves as Democrats. That’s down from 36.0 a month ago and from 37.8% in October. Prior to December, the lowest total ever recorded for Democrats was 35.9%, a figure that was reached twice in 2005. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.

The number of Republicans inched up by a point in December to 34.0%. That’s the highest total for Republicans since December 2007, just before the 2008 presidential campaign season began.

However, the number of Republicans in the country is essentially no different today than it was in November 2008 when Barack Obama was elected president.

The change since Obama’s election is that the number of Democrats has fallen by six percentage points and the number of voters not affiliated with either major party has grown by six. The number of adults not affiliated with either party is currently at 30.6%, up from 24.7% in November 2008.

[babylonsister]

1. Rasmussen. Gotcha. nt

[Go2Peace]

2. Have some evidence to refute the poll or just your "hunch"?

[babylonsister]

5. Why did you delete the date? from 3 Jan? Old poll, for starters?

And do a search for Rasmussen; they're a r/w polling company.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x108702


How Rasmussen's right-wing bias has made it a laughing stock among major pollsters
http://talk.livedaily.com/showthread.php?t=674184

The Rasmussen Approval Curve
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/12/the_rasmussen_approval_curve.php

[Go2Peace]

7. I deleted the whole line because it had html in it. If I still can I will put back the date which is

relevant.
Come on now, you are widly SPINNING. Do you really think you can defeat information with disinformation. The Gallop poll says the same thing!

[Go2Peace]

8. There, I replaced the date. Do you really think that in 2 weeks these numbers changed?

Of course you don't. We both know it.

[Go2Peace]

3. Gallup poll also shows the shift. You can discuss what you think it means but why bury truth?

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. When "Democrats" get elected and then don't act like Democrats

this is the inevitable result.

Not that I trust Assmussen polls on this, or anything else, but there IS a lot of this out there, and for good reason.

Real Democrats need to show some spine. False "Democrats" need to go fuck themselves and get out of the way.

[Go2Peace]

6. It also would factor into approval ratings

If progressives are leaving the party to some extent it will make the approval % look artificially high. It also might explain why the Democratic "leaning" numbers remain close to the same even while party numbers drop.

I think it is a significant bit of information in terms of interpreting what is happening.