Poll: Number of Republicans at lowest level in over 30 months
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Friday September 1, 2006
Print This Email This The number of Americans claiming to be Republican has been shrinking steadily since 2004, reports the Rasmussen Reports, a polling organization based in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
An advantage by Democrats in January of 1.6% (36.1%) has more than doubled to 4% (37.3%), the report states, and the number of self-identified independent voters is at 30.8%, a record level for Rasmussen since tracking data from January of 2004.
Excerpts from the Rasumussen Reports article appear below:
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The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years. Just 31.9% of American adults now say they're affiliated with the GOP. That's down from 37.2% in October 2004 and 34.5% at the beginning of 2006. These results come from Rasmussen Reports tracking surveys of 15,000 voters per month and have a margin of sampling error smaller than a percentage point.
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Add it all together and the Democrats have their biggest net advantage—more than five percentage points—since January 2004. In the first month of 2006, the Democrats' advantage was just 1.6 percentage points. Last month, 32.8% of adults said they were Republicans and 36.8% identified themselves as Democrats.
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