If 76% of Repubs wanting Palin to stay in the spotlight translates to only 45% of America overall...

[Bicoastal]

Doesn't that mean there are way fewer people identifying themselves as Republican than there used to be?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7861628

I'm not math expert, but it seems as if the ranks of Independents are swelling. If more than half the country was still Republican, you'd think that number would be way higher than 45%.

[crazylikafox]

1. 45% is still amazingly high.

I know I'm singing to the choir, but can America be that stupid?

[LynnTheDem]

4. 45% of what? 45% of 30% of Americans?

Fringe minority rightwingnuts trying to convince the world they're still in power. :rofl:

[Bicoastal]

6. According to Gallup, 45% of the entire country wants to see Palin "stay in the spotlight."

I think that number would be even lower if the question was actually "run for President in 2012."

[LynnTheDem]

7. And a lot of them are like me; they want that silly little bimbette to finish destroying

what she started destroying.

You betcha. ;)

[onehandle]

2. Republican registrations dropped and Democratic registrations grew last year.

So, yes.

[NorCalDem]

3. One is not to use logic and reason....

when discussing the future prospects of the Republican party. This is center-right nation, despite what all the recent polls and election results may have suggested, but don't you doubt we are center-right for one instance!!!

:sarcasm:

[onenote]

5. when do you think the country was "more than half" republican?

[Bicoastal]

8. In 2004, when 51% of the country voted for George W. Bush.

I know there were Dems and Independents in there too, but you have to assume there were a similar number of Repubs and Independents voting for Kerry. And Bush was Mr. Republican--he certainly didn't run as a Maverick.

[AndyTiedye]

10. That Election Was STOLEN

[Bicoastal]

13. Doesn't matter--a close race in Ohio was guaranteed from the polls...

...and the results would not have made much of a dent in the popular vote one way or the other (In fact, Kerry would almost certainly have lost the popular vote had he won the election.)

Like it or not, a bit more than half of the country voted for W in 2004.

[onenote]

11. nope. the percentage of the electorate idenifying themselves as repubs is/has been below 50

for as long as I can remember. According to gallup, its ranged from around 27 percent to 35 percent.
Not even close to 50 percent.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/28429/GOP-Identification-Party-Image-Bush-Approval-Down-Rove-Leaves.aspx

[AndyTiedye]

9. Some Dems Want Falin in the Spotlight to Make the Repiggies LOSE

[Johonny]

12. It's amazing consedering her inability

to form a single idea. She doesn't even have opinions on half the issues facing the nation. Heck Joe the Plumber showed himself to be in more command of the state of the nation than Palin.