Poll: As Conventions Approach, Dems Trouncing GOP In Image, Party I.D. »

Posted By bluetexasvalley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News

All the daily blocking and tackling over things like McCain's number-of-houses gaffe can easily lead you to forget the larger context in which this campaign is playing out. A new Pew poll offers a bracing reminder, laying out in detail just how dramatic the Democrats' generic advantage over the GOP in party identification and image is right now.

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    bluetexasvalley10 months, 2 weeks ago

    The poll finds that among registered voters, the Democratic Party has a 13-point lead in party affiliation (51%-38%) when independent "leaners" are included. Our handy Election Central calculator tells us that means that more than half of registered voters self-identify with the Democratic Party. That seems striking.

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      Radiofreeeuropa10 months, 2 weeks ago

      The Pew poll is fairly respectable. I know first hand that the amount of voters registering as democrats and voting in the primary doubled this year! In contrast, the amount of new republican voters and the participation voters in the republican primaries dropped.

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      tchef10 months, 2 weeks ago

      With everything that the Republicans have messed up in the last 7 years I really don't know how anyone can view them favorably!

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        hefaa110 months, 2 weeks ago

        It's their stuffy image, Republican need live music. Bands from hip-hop to-rock-to-jazz, for young and old alike. Otherwise, the only toe-tapping at the RNC will be coming from the stalls of the men's restrooms.

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