Monday, January 23, 2006

All even now

Political Wire illogically titles a post “Democrats make inroads” and links to this Gallup Poll article which contains this quote: “Overall, in 2005, basic party identification was even -- 33% of Americans each identified as Republicans, independents, and Democrats.”

Some inroads: if you look at historical data for party identification, the Democrats have been steadily losing voters for decades. In the seventies and early eighties, Democrats held a double-digit lead on party identification; now it’s down to zero. Hooray!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go even further back in data trending, and it's clear the Whigs are just plain f*#ked.

Pat Patterson said...

These kind of statistics remind me of the old SNL comment that Franco was still dead. Only here it must be that the Democrats are still alive.