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Ouch... shrinkage... A problem for everyone when things get a little bit too... cold. And when you have a cold heartless party that tends to not like anyone like.. oh say... women, the poor, young people, gay people, returning veterans, the middle class, farmers, and oh so many more, you tend to... well... shrink a little.
The latest Gallup Poll shows that such GOP Shrinkage is widespread. Meaning, its not just gay people and California anymore...
As the WaPo blogger Chris Cillizza (an isolated GOP blogger) said Monday...
the number of self-identifying Republicans stood at 21 percent last month -- the lowest it has been since the fall of 1983.And as Meghan McCain said last night on the Colbert Report, its going to take a lot more than using Twitter and Facebook to save the party. The GOP, she says, has to evolve into a more mainstream ideology, starting with reconsidering their anti-sex philosophy.This tendency for people to disassociate themselves with the Republican Party is echoed in Gallup's data. Combining several months of surveys -- with a large sample of more than 7,000 adults -- shows that over the last eight years self-identifying Republicans have gone from 44 percent to 39 percent while self-identifying Democrats have risen from 45 percent to 53 percent. (These numbers push independents who lean in one direction or the other into the party toward which they lean.)
While Republicans have lost ground in nearly every demographic group, the decline is particularly pronounced among college graduates (a 10 percent loss in party identification between 2001 and 2009), people 18 to 29 years old (nine percent) and those of "moderate ideology" (nine percent)."
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Let me be the first to wish the GOP the BEST of luck!
Published May 19, 2009 by Ally Klimkoski |
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