Posted on 01/01/2008 4:19:31 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
The number of Americans who consider themselves to be Republicans jumped nearly two percentage points in December to 34.2%. That’s the largest market share for the Republican brand in nearly two years, since January 2006 (see history from January 2004 to present).
At the same time, the number of Democrats fell to 36.3%. That’s down a point compared to a month ago. During 2007, the number of Democrats has ranged from a low of 35.9% in July to a high of 37.8% in February....
These results are based upon tracking surveys of 15,000 adults per month. The margin of sampling error is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence. Please keep in mind that figures reported in this article are for all adults, not Likely Voters.
Back in May, the Republicans fell to their lowest level of party identification of the past four years (30.8%). Then, the immigration debate raged in Congress and some Republican legislators helped defeat an unpopular Senate immigration bill. Republicans have gained ground in five of the seven months since then. But, the gains in December—1.7 percentage points—matched the total gains for the previous six months combined.
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Hank
The question then is how many are left leaning socialists?
Decades of abortions and homosexual acts is causing a decline in the number of RATS.
Too funny. The news media, as we all know, is always absolutely accurate in it’s polling. Yeah right. And we have the dirty little secret that the vast majority of “I”’s vote “R”.
At heart, I think most Americans WANT to be Republicans, for the optimism, fiscal responsibility and fair play for which the GOP typically stands. The past several years have been tough for the GOP (unpopular Iraq war, out-of-control spending, scandals); the Dems should be mopping up. This poll shows the resilience of the party after only one year of Democratic control of Congress.
I’ve always thought most elections are the Republicans to lose. . .
Expand your horizons. Fred Thompson isn’t the only answer here. While his policy positions are strongly conservative, he is quite frankly an unenthusiastic bore as a campaigner and speaker. I liked him in early spring 2007, but lost respect for him as he bungled his way through the rest of the year. Whether he likes it or not, campaigning is hard, necessary work if you want to win the party nomination. No one is just going to hand it to you. That what it seems Fred wants, sadly. . .
I registered Republican SOLELY to vote for Fred Thompson in the primaries.
Who is the answer, newbie?
Thank Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
The improvement for the GOP is due to improving condiditons in Iraq. Notice that when the GOP was polling poorly, McCain also had bad polls. Now the McCain surge is accommpanied by an improvement of the GOP brand name.
the question is how many of them are former leftists switching on the sole basis of the illegal immigrants debacle.
Agreed. They have as much to do with it as any other factor.
People are realizing that while the congressional Republicans were far from perfect, the DemocRATS are even worse.
BUMP!
Interesting theory. And you may be right.
But it’s a little frightening to think the GOP image rides on a guy whose claim to fame is sticking it to the GOP. I hope you’re wrong!
Hank
That's how we get candidates like Huckleberry and Mittwit.
What’s also funny is that Republicans have pretty much NEVER had ID parity since Roosevelt’s era. Even in 1994, when the GOP won big at the Congressional level. The GOP doesn’t even actually need to get the majority of votes in the aggregate of House elections to take back the House, since a lot of Dim votes tend to be clumped in sure-to-win races in urban districts anywise. The rest of the Dim votes are spread out, losing in many competitive districts.
This phenomenon happens every time the rats take power and have an opportunity to show what they stand for. And normal humans who work for a living and want to raise nice, normal, traditional American families don't like what the rats stand for.
“Who is the answer, newbie?”
nice...
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