The United States is getting more and more Republican

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For the first time since Gallup began measuring party affiliation nationwide, there are now more red states than blue ones. Twenty states are either solidly Republican or leaning Republican while just 14 are solidly or leaning Democratic. The remaining 16 are competitive between the two parties.

"This is the first time in Gallup's eight years of tracking partisanship by state that there have been more Republican than Democratic states," writes Gallup's Jeffrey M. Jones. "It also marks a dramatic shift from 2008, when Democratic strength nationally was its greatest in recent decades." (Gallup defines a state as "solid" for a party if that party has a 10-point or larger voter ID edge; a "leaning" state is one where a party has a five to 10 point edge.)

The shift in party affiliation over the past seven years is absolutely incredible. In 2008, there were 35(!) states that were either solidly or leaning Democratic, five solid or leaning Republican and 10 judged as competitive. The following year there were 33 Democratic states, 12 competitive states and, still, five Republican ones.
From 2008 to 2015, Democrats went from a 30 state lead to a six state deficit when it comes to states solidly or leaning their way on party affiliation. That is simply stunning.

Gallup's findings are in keeping with what I think is the most under-told story of the Obama years: Republicans have made massive gains at virtually every level of government other than, of course, the White House.

Republicans have their largest House majority since World War II, having retaken the majority in the 2010 election. They hold a four-seat majority in the Senate, having seized control of the world's greatest deliberative body in the 2014 midterms.

At the state level, Republicans have 31 governorships -- almost two-thirds of all the governors mansions in the country. Republicans are even more dominant at the state legislative level; the GOP holds total control over 30 of the 50 states' legislatures and have partial control in another eight states -- meaning that more than three-quarters of the country's state legislatures are controlled by the GOP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-states-is-getting-more-and-more-republican/

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Seven years of Obama policies, the sheep are finally waking up to the fact he is a loser....hope and change was just a slogan, nothing more.
 
Actually, the largest group are people who do not identify with either party and that number is growing.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
The pendulum swings. The national democrats over played their hand and have gone too far to the left.
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That's exactly what I was thinking and this was explained in a Civics' class, when I was in High School.
The same thing happens with crime and other areas.

When that pendulum swings to far, one way or the other, society gets tired of the lack of results and it tends to reverse direction.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
The pendulum swings. The national democrats over played their hand and have gone too far to the left.
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Got news for you. It went to far to the right after 911 and has been swinging back towards the center from sometime now. It's just the GOP that keeps swinging further and further to the right and alienating moderates and centrist in droves.

I mean the chart is hilarious. It's basing the GOP's popularity growing by geography and not population. Of the ten megaregions in this nation seven of those population centers are Democrat or leaning Democrat. Only one megaregion is solidly GOP, the Arizona megaregion, population~ 5.6 million. That leaves only two mega regions that lean GOP. The Texas triangle and the Piedmont region and both of those look to be switching to leaning towards Democrats due to demographic changes. Not only that all three of those megaregions combined are smaller in population than either just the Great Lakes mega region or the North East megaregion.

That means most GOP support is coming from rural and small town regions outside of the mega population regions.

So if sheep, cattle, gila monster and cacti count as part of the GOP coalition you may have a point. Every other indicator is showing that the GOP's far swing to the right is alienating pretty much everyone but angry, largely small town/rural, white male rednecks. It does appear to be hugely popular with them though.
 
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