February 18, 2020
Upset Poll: More Americans Identify as Republicans Than As Democrats ? The Washington Sentinel
A new Gallup poll finds that more Americans now identify as Republicans than they do as Democrats.
by By Warner Todd Huston
TheWashingtonSentinel.com
A new Gallup poll finds that more Americans now identify as Republicans than they do as Democrats, but independents make up the dominant group.
Both of these outcomes are bad news for Democrats because it means that the Democrat Party has lost its lock on the minds of most Americans.
There was a day when Republicans were the political minority and most Americans leaned toward the Democrat Party. But that started shifting in the 1980s when conservatism began to rise. And now, the Democrat Party is the minority segment of the voting population.
This does not mean that liberalism is currently losing the political argument, mind you. It only means that most voters no longer assume that the Democrat Party is their political home.
According to Gallup, 30% of Americans now identify as Republicans. But only 27% identify as Democrats. But the largest group is the 42% of registered voters who say they are independents. This is not new as independents have made up the largest category of American voters for decades.
However, this is a shift, nonetheless. In past decades, the Democrat Party has enjoyed the comfort of having more voters identify with them than with the GOP.
What this really means is that the Democrat Party has so strayed from its roots that many of its former members have drifted away from thinking of themselves as Democrats. On the other hand, the number of those who envision themselves as Republicans is holding strong.
With Democrats losing their voter registration advantage, that means they simply cannot count on getting out their voters because many just aren’t inculcating the party’s message or catching excitement for Democrats.
This may also seem to say that the GOP can count on their voters more in this, the era of Donald Trump.
In another bad sign for Democrats, the poll found that the so-called independents lean Republican (48 percent) instead of Democrat (44 percent).
This is an interesting turn of events considering the decades of strength for Democrats that stretches back to the 1940s.
The BIG question is this: Is the Republican Party smart enough to ostracize its Mitt Romneys and capitalize on this budding strength?
http://thewashingtonsentinel.com/upset-poll-more-americans-identify-as-republicans-than-as-democrats/
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