A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that the number of Republicans in the U.S. grew at a record rate of 2% in December to 34.2% of Americans. Democrats still outnumber Republicans though at 36.3%, but this is down a point from November.
These results are based upon tracking surveys of 15,000 adults per month. The margin of sampling error is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence.
Maybe America is starting to figure out that the liberal agenda will not work. Record levels of growth as the election is beginning to heat up tells me that those Americans who are politically neutral are starting to side with the conservative movement. This is good news for us conservatives who fear the worst – a liberal and/or socialist candidate winning in 2008.
The Democrat agenda has been predominantly Anti-Bush and Anti-War. While this method was successful in 2006, the Democrat Congress has not proven themself or fulfilled any of their promises. For those Americans who voted for these unfulfilled promises, I hope they are beginning to see how empty they actually were. A withdrawal from Iraq is not possible right now. America is not ready economically and structurally for a government healthcare system (and never will be). The Democrats are losing on every issue, and especially the war.
I hope that this upward trend of registered Republicans continues to increase, and I have confidence that it will. Rhode Island’s political atmosphere is so interesting because it allows its nearly 60% registered independents to vote in the primaries. Other states like Ohio and New Hampshire require primary voters to be registered in that specified party to vote. This creates a huge incentive for independents to become affiliated to vote in this election.
