Is Trump Scaring Voters? Republican Affiliation Dips in Year Since Election, Poll Shows

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Is Trump Scaring Voters? Republican Affiliation Dips in Year Since Election, Poll Shows
BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 12/4/17 AT 3:59 PM

American voters are less likely to identify as Republicans today than they were a year ago, with a new poll showing a five percentage point drop in party affiliation since President Donald Trump won the 2016 election.

More American voters identify as Democrats or as Independents who lean toward the Democratic Party than Republicans, the Gallup survey found.

Published on Monday, the poll showed 44 percent of people identified as Democrats or Independents who were leaning toward voting Democrat, while 37 percent of people said they identified as Republican voters—a five percentage point drop from 2016 that appears to give Democrats an edge over their opposition going into the 2018 midterm elections.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-scaring-voters-republican-affiliation-dips-year-election-poll-730604

[Saviolo]

1. The big question to me is:

Those "former" Republican voters... are they going to just stay home, or continue to vote Republican but just not say they're Republican because they're embarrassed by Trump? Do they have any principles to not support that party any more, or will they still vote for Republicans in order to screw the poor, screw women, screw POC, screw LGBTQ+, and screw immigrants for the possibility of a tax break and a super right wing SCOTUS that will overturn Roe v. Wade?

Because that's the final calculation most of those "former Republicans" are making in their minds. They're looking forward to when Trump's gone and they can be proud Republicans again.