Posted on 10/24/2010 7:49:02 AM PDT by chad_in_georgia
It’s a chart to make a Democrat’s blood run cold.
Page eight of a new poll out this week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press shows which party 28 different categories of voters supported in 2006 – the last midterm election – and who they favor now.
In 2006, 17 categories favored Democrats, which helped them take control of the House and Senate from Republicans. Democrats picked up six Senate seats and 30 House seats.
In the Pew Poll, 23 of the 28 categories of voters now favor Republicans. What’s more, 22 of the 28 categories support the GOP by 49 percent or more. There are only four categories of voters that are under 40 percent: those making less than $30,000 a year, at 39 percent; voters who are unaffiliated with a religion, at 37 percent; black voters, at 10 percent; and Democrats, at 8 percent.
What is most remarkable is how far some categories have swung away from Democrats and toward the GOP.
Democrats have lost a significant advantage with women voters, who supported Democrats by a 48 to 41 percent margin in 2006, but who have now flipped to supporting the GOP by 49 to 43 percent.
Voters over 65 years old were for Democrats by a 48 to 42 percent margin four years ago. They now favor Republicans by 52 to 38 percent. That’s a 20 point swing.
Perhaps most damaging for Democrats, they have suffered huge losses among Independents. Democrats were up 7 points in 2006, by 42 to 35 percent. They now are down 19 points, 49 to 30 percent. That’s a 26-point swing.
That point movement matches exactly what’s happened with white voters in mainline Protestant denominations. Democrats were even with the GOP among these voters in 2006, but are now down by 26 points, 58 to 32 percent.
Geographically, the biggest swing has been in the Midwest, where voters have come back to the GOP in droves. Democrats had an 11-point advantage in the Midwest in 2006, 51 to 40 percent. This year, Republicans are up 16 points, 53 to 37 percent.
The smallest swing of any group away from Democrats – besides black voters, where Democrats have seen only a one point loss – is out West, where they were up 47 to 44 percent in 2006 but are now down 45 to 43 percent.
Even in those four categories under 40 percent support for the Republicans, there has been massive movement away from Democrats.
Take voters unaffiliated with any religion. In 2006, 71 percent of those voters said they supported Democrats, while only 20 percent were for Republicans. Now, Democrats have lost 19 points in this group, while Republicans have gained 17 points. The Democrat advantage went from a gaping 51 points to just 15 points.
Voters making less than $30,000 a year also swung toward Republicans by 14 points, moving to 55 percent support for Democrats down from 62 percent, and to 39 percent support for the GOP up from 32 percent.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/24/a-chart-to-make-a-democrats-blood-run-cold/#ixzz13HroKk7h
I thought there were more communists than this. I guess since the communists took over the Rat Party they are losing votes.
Didn't know they had blood. I don't think zombies are afraid of a chart.
This assumes they HAVE blood.
That means 90% communist.
Gee I thought those damn Tea Party people where gunna tkae the votes away from the GOP /sarcasm.
Ping
Don’t believe the BS that the dhimmis are closing the gap on the challengers for the midterms.
When we turn out, they will be like deer in the headlights.
TURN OUT THE VOTE. PUT THE LAWN SIGNS UP. DEBATE ANYONE AND ANYBODY WHO UTTERS A STUPID LEFTIST PHRASE.
Of course they have blood. They drink it from your neck every night.
We must find Republicans with the spine and guts to shut down voter fraud! We must find patriots willing to watch the polls, detail and document the evidence, and then follow through with prosecution.
I mean, have you EVER heard a SMART leftist phrase?
At the risk of delving into misogyny, can I entreat the fairer sex to get a bit firmer hold on their principles and vote accordingly? The fence-jumping is maddening to watch and only encourages the kind of issue-free, emotion-driven campaigns that have afflicted our elections for years.
I'm seeing a lot of that crap when I log on to Yahoo. Whistling past the graveyard.
Didn’t know they had blood.
Yes they have lots of blood, because they have been sucking the blood out of us for years..Selling it to foreign countries for a big profit..
They do, it’s just that it’s other people’s.
AKA the "Mama Grizzly" effect.
There are way too many, and the have been hard at treason here since the turn of the Twentieth Century.
However I think the real problem is the failure of many average Americans to understand the natural laws of economics. They think the government has wealth in unlimited amounts, and can hand it out in any amount they desire, to anyone who wants it, let alone needs it.
They have to personally go through a depression or collapse to find out that it just ain't true.
Do you wash afterward?
A collapse seems to be unavoidable to me. I know of nothing that can keep this Ponzi System going no matter who is in charge. It has become the Ponzi States of America. We are promoting Ponzinomics no matter what Party is in charge.
The LEFT is in the process of dumping Obama. The signs are everywhere. Hillary will run in 2012. he Clinton machine is at work big time. The Washington Post story about Holder’s DOJ is just one case in point.
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