)....who SOMEHOW appear to be (all) Dems!
(I guess all o' those "adults", who took-over D.C., when Lil' Dumbya was elected, have left D.C.
Those pubbies they are a "Family Values' bunch are they not?
America is watching and they;'re seeing why now only 20% & shrinking of the people even associate themselves with the Republicant Party. Republicants have become a very ugly lot.
See there's ugly and then there's humor... Americans like humor.
You been out of the country?
The Incredible Shrinking GOP: Only 20 Percent Self-Identify As Republican
Okay, this is striking. Earlier this week a Washington Post poll made a big splash because it found that only 21 percent self-identify as Republicans. The abysmally low number got pundits and reporters talking about whether the GOP is shrinking to the point of irrelevance.
Now we have another poll that finds that the number of self-identified Republicans has dropped even lower: 20 percent.
My handy Plum Line calculator informs me that this means exactly one-fifth of adults identify themselves as Republican. Here are the key numbers, buried in the internals of the new NBC/WSJ poll (click to enlarge):
Thirteen percent identify themselves as a “strong Republican”; seven percent as a “not very strong Republican.” Total: Twenty percent.
So two polls this week have now found this, suggesting it’s probably not an outlier. Does anyone know if any other poll has found the number of self-identified GOPers hitting 20 percent?
Relatedly, I’m a bit surprised that these comments from Senator John Cornyn yesterday aren’t getting more attention. He vowed that the the GOP would one day “regain its status as a national party,” which is an admission from the head of the NRSC that it is no longer any such thing.
Update: DNC spokesperson Hari Sevugan emails over the following response:
When you’re devoid of new ideas, devoid of new leadership, and your only answer to the nation’s pressing problem is to say “NO,” it’s not surprising that moderate, independent voices can no longer identify with you. And all that remains are the fringe elements of a once grand old party that are far outside the American mainstream.
Those pubbies they are a "Family Values' bunch are they not?
I guess shouting down women is about all the balls they have left. At least they didn't start throwing spitballs at them... they didn't, did they?
"Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman.
But the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — and Scozzafava’s departure raises fresh questions about the GOP’s ability to recruit, elect and even tolerate the sort of moderate women who used to be part of its ruling mainstream.
While Republicans scored a pair of impressive electoral victories in New Jersey and Virginia with solid support among female voters, the events of the last week offer harbingers of serious trouble ahead with the largest swing voter bloc in the country — women.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), one of the most outspoken feminists in the House, put it more bluntly: “This is a party that doesn’t respect women, a party that doesn’t believe women are equal to men,” she told POLITICO. “I don’t think they attract women to their party,” added Wasserman Schultz. “I think they repulse women.”
