Posted on 07/06/2015 3:01:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Gallup organization reported its latest findings on party identification late last week, and the report contained good news for the Democrats and a flashing yellow for Republicans.
The Democrats have regained an advantage over the GOP in party affiliation, Gallups Jeffrey M. Jones wrote in an accompanying analysis. Republicans, he added, have seemingly lost the momentum they had going into last falls elections.
The current numbers dont mean Republicans cant win the White House in 2016. The Democrats advantage is not as large as at other points in the past, for example. But the findings add to a series of data points that underscore the challenges ahead for a party trying to keep pace with a rapidly changing country.
The latest numbers essentially mark a reset that returns party affiliation to its modern historical norm. Democrats long have enjoyed the advantage over Republicans in Gallups measures.
In those few periods when the GOP drew even or slightly ahead (after Republicans took control of Congress in 1994 or after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001), the party has been unable to hold that ground for long.
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WP wasn’t impressed when we were ahead.
1. Party affiliation is always in play. It’s not a demographic.
2. Beware of ALL polls. They’re all over the place in the US right now. In other countries, where they are consistent, they’re consistently wrong. They said the Greek referendum was a toss-up, and that turned out 61 to 39. In the UK, they also said it was a toss-up, and the Conservatives finished ahead of Labour by 6.5 percent of the vote, and an outright majority in the House of Commons.
Wonder how many of them are doomsday trolls here and on other conservative sites.
Dang! Are the Dems starting their registration drive of illegals early?
Heh heh heh...
“Democrats long have enjoyed the advantage over Republicans in Gallups measures.
‘Gee, I wonder why.’
About 20 years ago I took early retirement and on the financial advise from our CPA, I didn’t work for a year.
I dced the phone # I had used for years to avoid calls from customers for decades, complaining about the new sales rep.
In a few weeks, I started getting phone calls from Gallup, Pew, the gay Chronicle, and ABCNNBCBS.
The calls started at about 10 am and would go until about 3pm on what were normal workdays.
They were targeting the non working people to poll.
After a couple of weeks, when I got a call asking if they could have my opinion.
I said sure: I’m an opinionated Republican, Christian, Navy Vet married to the same woman for decades.
Usually, I would hear a click as they hung up.
Another fake poll. Similar to the one that produced a 62% favorability for homosexual marriage.
That was true in 2006 and in 2008 (the bad economy didn't help Republicans any in 2006, either).
But Republicans were able to make something of a comeback in 2010 and were doing pretty well earlier this year.
What I suspect happened is that the press spun the the gay marriage decision as such a victory for the president and a cause for celebration that enough swing voters figured that was the way the wind was blowing and they had to be Democrats now.
Certainly all the hoopla helped drive other issues which might be more troublesome for the Democrats off the TV screen for a while.
Seriously! I mean, who'd be surprised by this? Why choose Democrat-lite when you can go for the real deal?
Wow, now that is a sculpture! Where is that?
The gay marriage decision and TPA would not be reflected in the first quarter. The second quarter just ended and is not included in the graph. Will probably look worse with second quarter added to the graph.
I’d like to see the results if they asked the question:
“Do you identify with the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, or would you prefer to nuke both of them from space, just to be sure?”
Tagline...
Stuck on stupid.....
BS Meter Over-Ping
Very difficult for me to believe anything the Washington Post prints.
The country may well have “jumped the shark” if a conservative can’t win the presidency after the most ruinous leftist, incompetent, and usurping fraud ever foisted upon us, and if not now it may never elect one again. Sorry for the pessimism but that’s where I’m at.
WashPost cheerleading ... or ... are voters disgusted with RINO impotency despite two massive election mandates to reverse Obamaism? (But if the later, surely the patriot voters wouldn’t desert to the belly of the beast!)
Bull Fart Sculpture by Chen Wenling ...Wall Street
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