Regressive Retreat from Popularity among US Electorate!

GOP Behind in Party Identification -

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The Gallup organization reported its latest findings on party identification late last week, and the report contained good news for the Democrats and a flashing yellow for Republicans. The Democrats “have regained an advantage” over the GOP in party affiliation, Gallup’s Jeffrey Jones wrote in an accompanying analysis. Republicans, he added, “have seemingly lost the momentum they had going into last fall’s elections.” (…) The latest numbers essentially mark a reset that returns party affiliation to its modern historical norm. Democrats long have enjoyed the advantage over Republicans in Gallup’s measures. In those few periods when the GOP drew even or slightly ahead (after Republicans took control of Congress in 1994 or after the 9/11 terrorist attacks), the party has been unable to hold that ground for long. (…) Republicans must hope that they nominate a presidential candidate who the public sees as sharing its values and who embodies the future direction of the country. For now, however, the contest for the nomination offers potholes and pitfalls. The Republicans running for president have choices to make as they attempt to position themselves and their party as being in touch with the aspirations of a majority of the voters. The principles and values they stand for and the fights they decide to take on will determine their success. What they have lost in affiliation over the past few months is not irretrievably gone, but having to make up lost ground is hardly the way Republicans wanted to start the 2016 campaign.

This is no surprise; America has always been a very progressive nation in general. Fear mongered panic voting among a much reduced and radicalized mid-term electorate is almost always a temporary and quickly vanishing abnormality, the only real question I have is, which of the potential Democratic Candidates has the longest progressive coat-tails and can help elect other downstream progressives (real progressives, not conservative-lite liberals) to seats in the House and Senate (as well as state and local positions)?

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