Preference parity; Dems lose - Reps gain; Let's Reverse it!!!

We shout about it constantly but this poll speaks volumes. Let's only hope the poll is garbage or we should take off our rose colored glasses, most people are dumb as rocks none the less there are identifying more and more with the GOP!!!
Have we been too condicending?
Naive?
Media Snow job(likely)?



ABC News and ABC News/Washington Post Polls. Based on 332 surveys of 1,000 or more adults nationwide, conducted from 1981 through Oct. 2003.


"Do you generally consider yourself to be a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, or what?" Options rotated


___________Annual Averages___________

Demo-
crat Repub-
lican Indepen-
dent Other
% % % %


year D R I O
2003 31 31 31 6
2002 32 30 30 6
2001 33 30 29 7
2000 33 27 33 3
1999 34 26 33 5
1998 34 26 34 4
1997 35 26 34 5
1996 35 27 34 4
1995 32 28 36 3
1994 34 27 35 3
1993 35 26 35 2
1992 36 28 33 2
1991 33 30 33 2
1990 34 29 33 2
1989 37 29 31 2
1988 37 29 31 2
1987 36 26 35 2
1986 34 29 33 3
1985 35 28 32 3
1984 37 24 35 3
1983 39 23 34 2
1982 38 23 35 3
1981 37 24 33 5

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