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erhaps is was Christine O'Donnell, or it might have been the government shutdown. But a recent The University of Delawares Center for Political Communication poll shows that the two largest parties in the State of Delaware are the Democrats (40%) and Independents (34%), with the GOP bringing up the rear at 22%.
Independents, Other Party, Don't Know Party lean Democratic 33%, Republican 30% - so even among the I's the Democratic Party is the party of choice.
That is polling data. In other words, a mere 22% percent of Delaware voters admit to being republicans. The actual voter registration numbers are lagging behind voter sentiment, but are nearly as bad:
Out of 303,157 voters in Delaware 180,041 (48%) are Democrats. 123,116 (28%) are registered Republicans, and 24% are other.
Basically, the GOP in Delaware is hemorrhaging members. If another 6,000 people make their preference official, the GOP will be a third party.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/02/1252602/-The-GOP-has-achieved-third-party-status-in-Delaware
chillfactor
(7,587 posts)but Delaware is a step forward......
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etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)only lived there a few years, but often wonder why I left
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)FBaggins
(26,778 posts)"Other" isn't a party... nor is "independent"
quakerboy
(13,923 posts)a "independant party" registered in various places.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Supporting "none of the above" is not the same thing as supporting a real party. We need to see another party actually get more votes than the GOP. I don't know if that could be the Greens, Libertarians, or some other party. But once it happens in a couple of states, we could see this hopeless 2-party arrangement start to crumble in a big way nationally.
It could happen sooner than you think. In the last two Presidential elections, the winner of the White House was not from the Democratic Party, nor from the Republican Party. He was from the Obama Party, which had very little contact with the Democratic Party, for better or worse.
And in the last election cycle, the vast majority of the Right-wing money did not flow through the Republican Party. The parties are already well on their way to being irrelevant.
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)and that the party collapsed in Virginia!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)They spend most of their time manning the guillotines and the circular firing squad.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)or does it just mean not affiliated?
I think CT, Mass & RI are similar - more independents and democrats than republics.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)so the statement is misleading, at best.
When the Greens or the Libertarians poll higher than the 'Thugs, then they will reach 3rd party status.