The Republican Shrinkage Problem

"The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as to where the two parties stand politically there is only one number to remember: 21.

That's the percent of people in the Post/ABC survey who identified themselves as Republicans, down from 25 percent in a late March poll and at the lowest ebb in this poll since the fall of 1983(!).

In that same poll, 35 percent self-identified as Democrats and 38 percent called them Independents..." Story http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the...1-percent.html

Will you be filling out your voter registration card differently?

Response to comment [from a Catholic]:  "We will not know until November whether the Republican Party can harness the conservative disgust."

Do you believe the Republicans are conservative?  Or, are they just Democrat light? 

The Republican Shrinkage Problem