Democrats sit out the Future

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From: Bobby Briggs
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 03:09

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No Rescuing the Democrats

EWTON, Iowa - In the current issue of The Weekly Standard, 
Fred Barnes argues that we have seen the birth of a 
Republican majority. In 1992, Barnes points out, Republicans held 176 House seats. Today, they hold 229. 
In 1992, the G.O.P. controlled 8 state legislatures; now
it controls 21. In 1992, there were 18 Republican 
governors; now there are 27. 

But the really eye-popping change is in party identification. In Franklin Roosevelt's administration, 49 
percent of voters said they were Democrats. But that number 
has been dropping ever since, and now roughly 32 percent of 
voters say they are. As Mark Penn, a former Clinton 
pollster, has observed, "In terms of the percentage of 
voters who identify themselves as Democrats, the Democratic 
Party is currently in its weakest position since the dawn 
of the New Deal." 

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