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Posted By bluetexasvalley 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsAll 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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bluetexasvalley1 year, 4 months ago
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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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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
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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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