Having a HARD time replying to you.. FR is SLOOOW here..
Can’t find the same data for 2010, since there was no national election. I doubt it was all that much different.
HERE is the poll that really encourages me though...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158399/2012-electorate-looks-like-2008.aspx
Ignore the headline... check out the political leanings of the “Likely Voters”... it’s at the very bottom. It shows a BIG drop in Democrats (4%) and a corresponding HUGE increase in Republicans..(7%). That, is GOOD NEWS for Romney.
And, that Gallup poll is NOT like all the other polls that come out every day. It’s a once-per-election cycle poll Gallup does, with 9,000 people.. and a Margin of Error of only 1%.
Yes, that’s the one + the Rasmussen party identification poll that are also making me very positive.
(BTW - I’m surfing from Sweden, and I don’t seem to have a major problem with FR. Sometimes I have renew the page twice to get it to load, but that’s really all. V. strange considering all the others who seem to have big problems.)
PS: You live and learn - apparently the gender break-down 2004 was 46/54 (!!!) What are the men doing???