Gallup: The Republican 'decline'

What new poll numbers say about the Republican Party's popularity

If you still doubt that the Bush years were disastrous for Republicans, said Rod Dreher in BeliefNet, you’re not paying attention. The latest Gallup poll numbers should remove any lingering doubt, as they show a “pretty catastrophic” decline for the GOP—“across the board” in all regions and nearly all demographic groups—starting in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina and the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination.

“This is the hollowing out of the Republican coalition as we know it,” said Daniel Larison in The American Conservative. The figures are particularly “stunning” in the Midwest, where the percentage of people identifying themselves as Republicans has dropped by nine points since 2001. “This is not just the heartland, which the GOP is supposed to represent so well, but it has been the historic core of Republican politics at a national level since the founding of the party.”

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