Scott Rasmussen samples party identification, and finds Democrats and Republicans in a virtual dead heat, at 35.4%-33.0%. This graphic, showing party identification in June 2008, June 2009 and June 2010, tells the story:
Do the math: two years ago the Dems were + 9.5; one year ago they were + 6.7; today they are + 2.4. If that trend line holds, a year from now Republicans will outnumber Democrats.
Obviously, peeling away Democrats gets harder as you approach nearer the core, those who have serious amounts of money at stake in Democrat rule. But here is the lesson I would draw: the media like to characterize the nation’s mood as anti-incumbent, and to some degree that is true. It is also true that today’s conservative resurgence, as embodied in the Tea Party movement and related phenomena, is principled, not partisan. But equally true, and perhaps more important, is the fact that many millions of Americans are rebelling against the disastrous leadership of Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and understand that the Republican Party represents the nation’s best hope for recovery.
PAUL adds: Meanwhile, in a new Gallup poll, 46 percent of unaffiliated registered voters said they prefer the Republican in their congressional district’s House race, compared with 34 percent who lean toward the Democrat. The math is getting very bad for the Democrats.
-
-
Most Read on Power Line
Donate to PL
-
Our Favorites
- American Greatness
- American Mind
- American Story
- American Thinker
- Aspen beat
- Babylon Bee
- Belmont Club
- Churchill Project
- Claremont Institute
- Daily Torch
- Federalist
- Gatestone Institute
- Hollywood in Toto
- Hoover Institution
- Hot Air
- Hugh Hewitt
- InstaPundit
- Jewish World Review
- Law & Liberty
- Legal Insurrection
- Liberty Daily
- Lileks
- Lucianne
- Michael Ramirez Cartoons
- Michelle Malkin
- Pipeline
- RealClearPolitics
- Ricochet
- Steyn Online
- Tim Blair
Media
Subscribe to Power Line by Email
Temporarily disabled
Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator.