> If you are my friend and identify as Republican, please, either fix your party or leave it. Isn't this embarrassing?
That is actually the reason these percentages are so high: So many people have stopped identifying as Republicans over the past half-decade. Because this stuff *is* embarassing. We've gone from nearly 40% Republican self-ID in the US around 2003-ish, to mid-20s. The craziest ones are the least likely to have left, so they now make up a majority of self-identified Republicans. They are not, however, necessarily a larger set of people; they may even be a smaller set than they were.
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Date: 2010-02-05 08:14 pm (UTC)That is actually the reason these percentages are so high: So many people have stopped identifying as Republicans over the past half-decade. Because this stuff *is* embarassing. We've gone from nearly 40% Republican self-ID in the US around 2003-ish, to mid-20s. The craziest ones are the least likely to have left, so they now make up a majority of self-identified Republicans. They are not, however, necessarily a larger set of people; they may even be a smaller set than they were.