Republicans Lose Party Identification in Texas
Lone Star Project brings us the good news that “Democrats in Texas now have a slight advantage in party identification, 43% to 41%, a clear reversal from the recent past.”
From LSP:
LSP goes on to point out that we’ve closed the gap in the TX House to 2 seats and defeated an incumbent Republican State Senator for the first time in a decade.
2010 is our year to turn Texas blue!
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February 17th, 2009 at 8:47 am
One of the things that strikes me about this trend is that while it’s true that voters who identify themselves as Republicans have decreased by 11.4%, the graph shows an increase in voters who identify themselves as Democrats of only 3.8%. The real story here is that the number of respondents who identify themselves with neither the Republicans nor the Democrats has almost doubled, from 8% in 2002 to 15.6% in 2008.
How many of those do you think are actually just conservatives that don’t want to be associated with Bush?