Posted on 04/10/2015 12:34:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The party identification of American voters was one of the most hotly debated topics among analysts before the 2012 presidential election. Many Republicans thought there were roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans, and so doubted polls showing President Obama with the lead. In the end, the polls were right. This week, a Pew Research report based on about 25,000 interviews in 2014 took a new measure of partisanship. Here are the most interesting findings:
Partisan Leanings Favor Democrats
Forty-eight percent of adults identify as Democrats or lean Democratic, compared with 39 percent who identify as Republicans or lean Republican.
Partisan leanings of American adults.
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Despite the president’s sagging approval ratings in 2014 and the strong Republican performance in the midterm elections, the Democrats retain a nine-point advantage among adult Americans who lean toward a party identification, 48 to 39.
The tally is nearly unchanged from the 10-point Democratic advantage in 2012, when President Obama won re-election....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Cruz in control.
Let’s roll!
Presently the Republican Party stands for nothing.
Who would want to identify with a party that stands for nothing?
Nothing new here; it’s Romney’s 47%. It will take a generation to turn that around, and that’s only if as a society we were willing to begin the turnaround today. The only way to win national elections going forward is provide candidates that inspire every single conservative voter to run to the polls, and to be willing to so skewer their candidates, regardless of what we will be called for doing so, that depress the 47%’s turnout.
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Exactly.
My guess is that younger minorities are less likely to have personally encountered racism (real or perceived).
Another opportunity to pray for our country. A 45% Republican ID would be transformational.
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