Rasmussen: Democrats hold highest advantage in party numbers in years, 37.7% vs. 31.5%

[Grebrook]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/October%20Dailies/OctoberPartyAffiliationTrends.htm

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Partisan Trends:
Dems Peaking at the Right Time
November 1, 2006

In the final full month before Election 2006, the number of people identifying themselves as Republicans has fallen to its lowest level since we began reporting this measure of partisan trends in January 2004. As a result, Democrats have their biggest net advantage of the past two campaign cycles.

In October, just 31.5% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s a startling decline of nearly six percentage points from 37.2% two years ago. It’s also down nearly a full point from last month.

Democrats have also lost a little ground since October 2004. Today, 37.7% identify themselves as Democrats, down a point from 38.7% on the eve of Election 2004.

However, Democrats now have a 6.2 percentage point advantage over the GOP, their largest recorded over the past 34 months. In October 2004, the Democrats advantage was a miniscule 1.5 percentage points.

These results are based upon tracking surveys of 15,000 adults per month. The margin of sampling error is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence. Please keep in mind that figures reported in this article are for all adults, not Likely Voters. Republicans typically do a bit better among Likely Voters (in fact, the two parties ended up even among those who showed up to vote in 2004).

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[Proud2BAmurkin]

1. excellent nt

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[undeterred]

2. YAY!

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[orwell]

3. The Real Story...

...Independents/Declined to State have gained substantially. This is a warning to R's but the D's as well that they are posturing themselves into oblivion. People are getting sick and tired of business as usual.

[jefferson_dem]

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