BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
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does someone here have the stasitcs of what % of registered voters are R/Conserv/Ind/and Dems? what we really need to know is how many registered voters are dems, then compare it to the rest.they say 40% of us are conservatives. so how are the other 60% caculated? is it true that millions of dems have switched red over the last 2 years?
I am not so sure that's a good way to measure it. Lots of people don't bother to change their registration even though they stopped voting with their party. When I lived in Phoenix I changed my registration to Democrat so I could vote in the primary between Clinton and Obama and simply never changed it back. Also party identification can change so quickly. I can guarantee you for example that on September 14, 2008 there was one set party identification and on September 16, 2008 it was totally different.
I would argue that the self-identification is probably more accurate than the registrations so long as you look at the most recent polling data available.