I said slightly more dims than republicans... 4.5 million dims... one half millon more than republicans is a bit more than “slightly more”... I will admit... but it is close.
LLS
There are more Dems than Reps and they die faster, so it’s probably closer to 4.5 than not ~ BTW, I’m using that Bush drop off and the minor Romney recovery to work up a formula for this, and it looks close to 4 million Republicans kicked the bucket ~ (give or take a few) ~ but there were more Dems. We could write up some quadratic equations here to help us reduce the problem to a very simple formula, but make sure we always note that the number of Dems at the start is some number X greater than the number of Reps.