Gallup mines all of the data they collected over the past year to provide various analyses of the state of the political nation and looks at political party affiliation:
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Open Left slices and dices this data further, highlighting the real disconnect between the apparent media stance that mostly Republicans get to sound off on the Recovery package AND Dems themselves who seem to have forgotten what voters actually voted for in November. Bipartisanship is great, a compromise including multiple good ideas is great — but succumbing to a narrative that has nothing to do with why you are now the majority AND a narrative that already has a track record of failure only lures you into the corner of failure that Rs currently live in. The economic issues at hand are very serious — returning to what has already failed doesn’t signal that you are ready to lead.
The good news of this map? Redistricting after 2010 will be fun…..
The bad news of this map? All of that Blue represents a remarkably Big Tent whose inherent diversities are always going to make it very tough for Dems to act in complete lock step as Rs do….