Gallup: Number of voters Identifying as democrats has dropped

[bigdarryl]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/poll-political-party-identify-217562

[B Calm]

1. but, still out number registered Republicans!

[earthside]

3. Not enough to win an election.

True for Repuglicans as well.

This why it is so important to have candidates that can appeal to moderates, liberals and progressives.

Too many Democratic candidates think they have to cater to conservatives in order to win, eg., Hillary Clinton.

But that dooms Democrats because the country is a lot more left leaning than they think.

Democratic candidates need to appeal to the more liberal base to win.

It is the opposite for Repuglicans since they have moved so far to the right -- they ought to be distancing themselves from their base to win a general election.

This has been true for quite sometime: the Democratic establishment (like DWS and Clinton) really have contempt for the base of the Democratic Party; Repuglican candidates are so enamored of their base that they let it destroy them.

Once again, a case for the Sandersization of the Democratic Party -- become a genuine, progressive party of the people and we can't lose.

[marmar]

2. I suspect the number of people identifying as members of either major party will continue to drop...

...... precipitously as millennials become the largest voting bloc.

[wendylaroux]

5. good for the millennials,

it is pretty silly,choosing sides,just choose the best candidate for you.

[kentuck]

4. When the Democrats started representing the "great middle class"...

...and seemed to be writing off the "great working class" and the poor, they surrendered a lot of support. They seldom mention the "poor" in any of their speeches.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. It's a two way street

Voters who consider themselves "working class" don't like being labelled "poor" or lumped in with them because Republicans have made the word poor synonymous with "welfare leeches". The modern GOP have become masters of pitting the serfs against one another.

[emulatorloo]

7. You left out the part about Republicans: 1 pt above their low in 2013. Poll moe of +/- 1 pt.

Meanwhile, the share of self-identified Republicans is just 1 percentage point above its Gallup historical low of 25 percent in 2013, dating back to 1988.

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Results for the survey were compiled from 12,137 landline and cellphone interviews conducted throughout the course of 2015 and have a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.