Newest Poll: GOP Identification Drops

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

Bush and his lawless ways have destroyed the Grand Old Party:

Americans aren’t just having a tough time seeing themselves pulling the lever for Republicans these days. Fewer are seeing themselves as Republicans, period.

That’s the conclusion of one of the party’s most respected polling firms, based on a compilation of its national surveys conducted so far this year. Public Opinion Strategies, based in Alexandria, Va., counts among its clients about one-fourth of all Republican members of Congress and is half of the bipartisan team that conducts polling for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.

Party identification — or affiliation, as it’s also called — measures whether people consider themselves to be Republican, Democratic or independent. In 2004, according to the firm’s merged polling data (think of it as one huge data set compiled over the course of a year), Republicans were at rough parity with Democrats in party ID, trailing them by three percentage points.

At this point in 2007, they trail Democrats by seven. Other, nonpartisan national surveys show a similar disinclination to identify with the GOP.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1A9053A3-3048-5C12-0093F4E9901FF7B5

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think they are calling themselves Libertarians now.

That way disaffected former Republicans can still hold views consistent with being selfish assholes without identifying themselves with the G.O.P.

[fishnfla]

2. They recognize one another by an elaborate sytem of toe-tapping

forget secret handshakes

[Purveyor]

3. LOL! To funny, indeed! eom

[OHdem10]

4. You know, this am a caller to C_Span Wash. Journal

made a comment close to this. He told the Host, I am calling
from Tennessee , and I was raised as a Republican, voted for
Republicans all my life. But I am telling ya, NO MORE. My
friends and I organizing a meeting in Dollywood this weekend
and we are turning Tennessee Blue. These Republicans are
robbing us blind.

This caller and others over the past month seem to affirm the
rport posted.