Democrats - a party in decline

[2ndAmendment]

"Last week the Democratic Leadership Council heard that only 33% of voters identify themselves as Democrats, the lowest in recent history and weakest among younger voters. A poor 2004 race might also erode the party's last hold on the legislative process; with a lot of Democratic seats vulnerable, Republicans could conceivably end up with 57 or 58 votes of the 60 needed to stop filibusters. The Democratic Party is in danger of fading away like Alice's Cheshire cat. ... Watching Mr. Dean's surge in the primaries, Sen. Clinton may have to rethink her preference of delaying a presidential bid until 2008 to run against Gov. Jeb Bush or some other non-incumbent. By then it may be too late, not for her but for her party. A Dean candidacy would stamp Democrats more clearly than ever as a party that runs hoping for a sour economy at home and rooting for American humiliation in Iraq." --The Wall Street Journal

 

[jlabsher]

Amazingly this "party in decline" has won the popular vote for president in the last 3 elections.

 

[cattitude]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Amazingly this "party in decline" has won the popular vote for president in the last 3 elections.

Just goes to show that being the most popular isn't what it's cracked up to be. My mom WAS right after all....

 

[justhangn]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Amazingly this "party in decline" has won the popular vote for president in the last 3 elections.

Yeah, it seems the dead demi's haven't changed their party.

 

[vraiblonde]

Originally posted by jlabsher
Amazingly this "party in decline" has won the popular vote for president in the last 3 elections.

And lost just about everything else.

 

[SmallTown]

With the dems winning the last 3 popular votes, and the notion the party is really declining, this also tells us that many registered republicans are either not voting, or they don't like their candidate enough to vote for him.

 

[vraiblonde]

ST, *she rubs her hands with glee* I direct you to the 2002 election results. There's more to life than Presidents.

But you might be right about the Repubs not liking Bush enough to vote for him. Larry didn't - he wrote in Keyes in the 2000 general. I held my nose and gave him a vote. Bush is too liberal for me but he was the only choice I had.

 

[Bruzilla]

You got it right Smalltown. Republicans do not vote and that's our biggest problem. The good old red/blue map showed why Gore won the popular vote. The Dems focused all of their attention on the areas with the highest populations of people that depend on the government, i.e., the cities, and they got people to vote in droves for them by saying that the Republicans were going to take away all their goodies. Fortunately, the Founding Fathers were way ahead of the Dems and started the Electorial College to prevent the people of the cities outvoting the people living outside the cities.

Hopefully Republicans will learn from their mistakes and get out the vote in 2004.