Gallup: Republicans Slipping Among All Demographics Except Frequent Churchgoers
Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
A new polling analysis from Gallup finds that the Republican Party has lost support among nearly every major demographic subgroup, from college graduates to married people to those making under $30,000 a year.
In 2001, 47 percent of college grads leaned Republican. Today, just 37 percent do. Support among married people has slid from 51 percent to 46 percent. Just 28 percent of those making less than $30,000 lean Republican, down 9 points in the past eight years.
Overall, 39 percent of the country leans Republican today, compared with 53 percent that leans Democrat. That's a dramatic change from 2001, when the country was evenly divided, with 45 percent leaning Democrat and 45 percent Republican.
Only one demographic group wholly defied the trend: weekly churchgoers. Fifty-two percent of them leaned Republican in '01, and the same proportion does today.
As the Republican Party struggles to revitalize itself, I wonder which way it will interpret these data: as evidence that frequent churchgoers are so solidly Republican that the GOP can count on them without having to work too hard on social issues like abortion or as a reminder that the party had best keep these folks happy, since there wouldn't be much of a party without them.
Here's one of the dramatic graphs from Gallup analysis:
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I guess that is why more people are now pro-life than pro-choice. Once Obama totally screws the country up and his 13 trillion dollar stimulus package which will do nothing but cause hyperinflation, people may begin to wise up. The problem with the Republicans is they don't know how to fight and they forgot their conservative principals, but once a good leader comes out who knows how to talk about how conservatism works and this progressive liberalism will wreak havoc on this economy, it will change.
Mark
http://mark24609.blogspot.com/2009/04/100-days-1360-days-to-go.html
We refer to this poll as a
BFO...Brilliant Flash of the Obvious. It should come as no surprise that the party of "no" is wholly embraced only by a mass of religiously brainwashed sheeples. I can't decide if these people and their party are outrageously pathetic or just plain pitiful.
Party change
I am still for small government and low taxes, and that used to mean I was a Republican but that definatly does not mean I am now a Democrat (even bigger government and higher taxes). My only choice now is joining a no chance third party or sitting it out. Well, it was a good 200 and something years.
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