Number of Republicans in U.S. Increases in December to Two-Year High

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 1/1/2008 | Scott Rasmussen

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

The number of Americans who consider themselves to be Republicans jumped nearly two percentage points in December to 34.2%. That’s the largest market share for the Republican brand in nearly two years, since January 2006 (see history from January 2004 to present).

At the same time, the number of Democrats fell to 36.3%. That’s down a point compared to a month ago. During 2007, the number of Democrats has ranged from a low of 35.9% in July to a high of 37.8% in February....

These results are based upon tracking surveys of 15,000 adults per month. The margin of sampling error is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence. Please keep in mind that figures reported in this article are for all adults, not Likely Voters.

Back in May, the Republicans fell to their lowest level of party identification of the past four years (30.8%). Then, the immigration debate raged in Congress and some Republican legislators helped defeat an unpopular Senate immigration bill. Republicans have gained ground in five of the seven months since then. But, the gains in December—1.7 percentage points—matched the total gains for the previous six months combined.

[ChiMark]

Is’nt this good news! I certainly hope
your prophesy is correct.

[Salvation]

**Number of Republicans in U.S. Increases in December to Two-Year High**

And the dimocrats think they are going to win an election? NOT!

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"Apologies for actually commenting on the article instead of gleefully hijacking the thread into another candidate-bashing exercise."

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Well....you're forgiven.....THIS ONE TIME....

;-)

Hank

[PackerBronco]

I'm sending two new Republicans to the voting booth this November with another four waiting in the wings. Heh-heh.

[ken21]

mexicans were few and suffered from indian attacks in the american southwest

until the arrival of the american calvary.

safe from the indians, they prospered.

[Fee]

You need to add free trade agreements without calculating the domestic costs and country club/corporate/chamber of commerce GOP support for illegal immigration hurt the GOP.

[jmyrlefuller]

Well, did it occur to anyone that those Ron Paul nutbags are crashing the party? This may be not so good for the GOP...

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Oy, I’ve explained this 3 times now.

This isn’t a survey of REGISTRATION. This was a poll of 15,000 Republicans nationwide.

Hank

[CatDancer]

“I know FReepers don’t want to hear this, but, I’ve seen a lot of comments on various forums about people registering as R’s because of Ron Paul.”

You’re right. I’ve seen the same thing in two forums I was in a lot- a major “health” site and a popular “pets” site. They are both full of rabid Ron Paul supporters, all advising each other to register as Republicans in the primaries and vote for him, and then they can “switch back the next day”. I got so disgusted I left both, but I still go lurk in the health one sometimes. It’s getting worse. And why do the health nuts want Paul? Because he “won’t make their supplements illegal”. The whole bunch has the political IQ of a radish. They claim millions of members, I think. In the pets site, it was pure BDS. Maybe they’ve adopted a new cure by now.