Gallup is one of the country’s oldest and, as far as I can tell, least partisan polling companies. It is valuable in part because it has asked the same questions over a considerable period of time, and therefore can document trends.
One question Gallup has been asking for many years is party identification: do you consider yourself a Republican, lean Republican, a Democrat, or lean Democrat? Here are the results since 1992:
For the first time, Republican Party ID exceeds Democratic Party ID. This seems remarkable, in view of the onslaught of anti-Republican propaganda to which voters are continuously subjected. Maybe it means attacks in the press are ineffective, or maybe it means the GOP should, by rights, be ahead by 15 points.
In any event, these numbers are obviously positive for the election currently under way.
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