Gallup Finds Fewer Americans Identify Themselves As Democrats

[cali]

February 21, 2011 2:42 PM

A Gallup analysis of interviews of more than 350,000 Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia finds that fewer people defined themselves as Democrats in 2010 than did in 2008.

In fact, notes Gallup “every state and the District of Columbia had fewer residents identifying as Democrats, or identifying as independents but leaning Democratic, in 2010 than in 2008.” States carried by Barack Obama in 2008, including New Hampshire, Maine, Wisconsin, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, and Nevada, saw some of the most significant shifts away from Democratic identification. Back in 2008, for example, Democrats had an 18-point lead in party affiliation in Wisconsin. By the end of 2010, however, that lead had shrunk to 2.6 percent.

In 2008 there were only seven states (Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah) where the number of people who identified themselves as Republicans outnumbered those who identified themselves as Democrats. By the end of 2010 that had tripled to twenty-two states.

But, as Gallup notes, “the Democratic losses have not led to major gains in Republican affiliation.” In other words, even as they are no longer identifying themselves as Democrats, Americans aren’t flocking in droves toward Republicans either. Still, party identification doesn’t always translate into votes. For example, in West Virginia, self-identified Democrats outnumber self-identified Republicans by 47.6 to 37.9 percent. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won West Virginia since 1996.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/gallup-finds-fewer-americans-identify-themselves-as-democrats.html

[alp227]

1. but still the republicans took back congress in 2010

yet i wonder if this is from the effect of liberals disillusioned with the Democrats as much as independent voters who decided to join the GOP.

[Kurmudgeon]

4. If you vote to spite the lesser evil, greater evil wins.

[pintobean]

5. More spite bs.

Gotta love those M&Ms.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend - interesting. Nt

[yourout]

3. My poll says fewer and fewer people belive a damn thing Gallup has to say.

[alp227]

6. the gallup poll also found most people think reagan the greatest president

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/02/reagan-tops-gallups-greatest-president-poll-clinton-is-third/1

And you might want to monitor Gallup's presidential approval poll that's weekly

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

[Quixote1818]

7. Well, the supreme court has allowed the corporations to pollute the minds of the masses

on a grand scale now. We are fucked.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. That will happen when you random sample at county REC meetings.

[kenny blankenship]

9. Take a bow Obama.

Give yourself a big hand Dems.

[emilyg]

10. +1

[CommonSensePLZ]

13. + another 1

I'm with them, the spineless way the democrats have been I would say the same thing too. The dems might be less selfish than the republicans, but what good is that if they're just going to be a bunch of pushovers? How does that help anyone?

[Ramulux]

11. I just dont understand who would

The democratic party doesn't stand for anything anymore, obviously no one is going to identify with a party that has no principles.

[Poboy]

12. Correct!