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Democrats: Highest support since 1988
The Swamp —
... They show that "Democrats have gained ground against Republicans in each of the last five years, going from a deficit of two points in 2003 to the most recent eight-point advantage,'' Gallup reports today. "Additionally, the 36 percent of Americans who identified as Democrats last year matches the high point in Democratic identification since 1988, when it was also 36 percent. ...
(Gallup Poll) Democrats 2008 Advantage in Party ID Largest Since '83
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... trend shows that Democrats have gained ground against Republicans in each of the last five years, going from a deficit of two points in 2003 to the most recent eight-point advantage. Additionally, the 36% of Americans who identified as Democrats last year matches the high point in Democratic identification since 1988, when it was also 36%. But since fewer Americans identified as Republicans last year (28%) than in 1988 (31%), the Democratic advantage was larger in 2008. Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113947/Democrats-2008-Advant...
How Many Republicans Would Rather See America Fail Than Obama Succeed?
DownWithTyranny! —
... -- and trumpeted it on one of their official websites -- that "Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong." After an outcry, they removed that page from the NRCC website (although you can see the screenshot at the link above). Their cluelessness is underscored by the biggest surge in Democratic Party self-identification among voters since 1983 or, worse for the Republicans, the fact that only ...
A growing gap
Political Animal —
... during his first few days in office (only 12% disapprove). While some polling numbers, including CNN's, show Obama with even higher support, it's not a bad way to start a presidency. The last president to score this high, this early, was JFK 48 years ago. But the numbers I found even more interesting were released Friday, measuring party identification . Based on all 2008 polling, 36% of Americans describe themselves as Democrats, while 28% identify as Republicans. The eight-point gap is "the largest for the Democratic Party since Gallup began regularly conducting its polls ...
Reagan is Dead
Newshoggers.com —
... actions of the Reagan years may have helped to bring on the current mess, but in the route that the Great Communicator took to sell his ideas, Obama could find a surprising road map to a very different kind of transformative presidency.
The polls indicate that Obama and the Democrats have the political capitol to undo 28 years of Reagan policies. Obama himself has a 68% approval rating. That's 10 points higher than Bush or Clinton. The Democrats have the largest advantage in Party ID since Gallup began asking the question in ...
"oh yeah? well, just for that, we're going to sh*t in our bed again!"
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... what is immediately clear from the map is that residents of the united states were very democratic in their political orientation last year. in fact, gallup has earlier reported that a majority of americans nationwide said they identified with or leaned to the democratic party in 2008. ...
If It's True, It's Not New
The American Spectator —
... . This new site is "dedicated to the reform and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement" as well as "building a conservatism that can win again." Frum and his fellow New Majoritarians are particularly concerned about the shrinking Republican base . Just five years after ...
The Party Of Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... writes: Your reader tries some "fuzzy math" to make his case, but the facts are that George W Bush had high approval among conservative Republicans when he left office. According to Gallup, 72% APPROVED of W's job performance as late as December of '08. So for that reader to say "We did not approve" is demonstrably false. Another notes: Gallup's party ID poll put Republican identification at 28% in 2008, while Bush's approval rating in December 2008 was...28%! ...
More On Obama And Polarization
TPM Election Central —
... For example, we are still left with the matter that Pew's polling director explained to me -- that the Dem approval rating for Obama is so amazingly high, creating much of the gap by itself. And Jones thinks that while the GOP shrinking would make some difference, it doesn't by itself explain numbers as low as this. The Gallup organization informed me that GOP self-identification in this poll was only 26%, compared to 34% in 2004, with Democrats holding steady at last year's figure of 36%. But the higher base of Democrats should just as easily create a more heterogenous party, ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... You could argue that there's just a lag between reality and the Beltway's perception of that reality, but, as Gallup notes, the GOP losses started in 2005 and the party's status reached its current dire state at the end of 2008. And there've been, y'know, a couple of election cycles in there, with unambiguous results. The pundits and politicians have had ample opportunity to adjust to the new reality. ...
Hard Times for Republicans?
Democracy Project —
... The Republican Party clearly has lost a lot of support since 2001, the first year of George W. Bush’s administration. Most of the loss in support actually occurred beginning in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina and Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court — both of which created major public relations problems for the administration — and amid declining support for the Iraq war. By the end of 2008, the party had its worst positioning against the Democrats in nearly two decades. ...
Lindsey Graham, Loser
The Next Right —
... The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly every major demographic subgroup. [...] By the end of 2008, the party had its worst positioning against the Democrats in nearly two decades. ...
