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In article <47yJHF8uh27yh27h@rebye.org>,
 bbriggs@rebye.org (Bobby Briggs) wrote:

> No Rescuing the Democrats
> 
> EWTON, Iowa - In the current issue of The Weekly Standard,

The Weakly Substandard. Now THERE'S a real "Fair and balanced" news 
source.

NOT!

 
> 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." 
> 
> from:
> http://forum.chronwatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=598
>