and voters 65 years of age or older, with a one-point decrease.

Uh huh. Buick sales only declined by 1 percent among drivers 65 and older, too.

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Dang, I am a frequent church-goer but I am never a GOP supporter. Maybe someone has to start a group called "Christians for Jesus".

"GOP self-identification has fallen by ten points among college graduates"

What do these stats mean? Does that mean that of college graduates polled 10% fewer of the grads ID as GOPers, or does it mean that the shift in GOPer ID due to college grads alone comes to 10% of the total?

Given that the sub-populations are not all equal-sized, this makes a big difference. For instance if college grads were a small fraction of all GOPers in 2001, 10% of a small number is a very small fraction of the total population. But if the shift in college grads who ID as GOPers was 10% of the total population, and college grads were a small fraction, then that would be a huge fraction of the college grads who shifted. And this latter case would be very significant because it says that disaffection in that small sub-population (college grads who used to ID as GOPer) has been proportionately huge.

I cannot make out from the linked Gallup site just how it's meant.

I would like to see a self-identification poll in which respondents had to choose of the following: Republican, Conservative, Democrat, or Liberal/Progressive. Perhaps this is the time to break the two-flavored, one-party neoliberal system that is crushing most of the people in this country and the rest of the world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

IF BARACK OBAMA GETS UNIVERSAL, SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE PASSED, NO PARTY WILL OVERTAKE DEMOCRATS FOR 50 YEARS.

That is what happened in England, and it would happen here too. The problem is, he doesn't intend to do that.

If the "frequent churchgoers" are described as a "bright spot", that's one way to look at it.

Another way is to see that the GOP barely had them in 2001 (52%), and after 9/11 and the "culture wars", they haven't made any gains.

So maybe "frequent churchgoing" isn't a good yardstick for political preference, especially in light of the GOP's losses in other categories.

Good show, Brian. Some of us church-going types have known since our baptisms that the Republican party's brand of religion wasn't exactly divine.

I think the headline on this post is misleading. In the same poll, Gallup identified those who cited "frequent" church attendance at the level of almost weekly to monthly attendance as declining from 46% Republican affiliation to 40% affiliation.

To use the phrase "church-going" to describe the Republican base isn't really inaccurate, so that's not my complaint. It's more the assumption that because the GOP has a lot of people who report weekly church attendance, those people who report that they are still frequent church attendees aren't equally "church-going."

Republicans hurt America.

So,of these that forgot to wake up: bless them. Even crazed-addicted gamblers have to leave the table when there is nothing left.

For as long as Republicans continue down the narrow path of connecting religion with politics, they will continue to fail. Just look at how President Obama handled the situation at Notre Dame on Sunday. What ever happened to the true separation of church and state?

Here's a Good Read From the Article:
OBAMA SILENCES CATHOLIC CRITICS

On Sunday, President Obama was the invited commencement speaker before the 2009 graduating class of Notre Dame, and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree as is customary (Arizona State University notwithstanding). But his visit to the South Bend, IN campus was not without controversy. Conservative catholics attending and/or affiliated with the university protested and attempted to make a mockery of Mr. Obama's visit due to his Pro-Choice stance on abortion. But in the interest of putting brain over brawn the President methodically dismantled his critics with their own doctrine. And in the true spirit of Christianity, Mr. Obama won the day by simply turning the other cheek.

FULL ARTICLE: http://okwassup.blogspot.com

Interesting that 'frequent church goers is unchanged.' Does that include Muslims, Jews, Budhists as well? Maybe they were never big Republican supporters anyway.

As a life-long lefty who attends church every Sunday and is elderly (over 55), I thought I'd take a moment to register my dismay at the implication that most Christians are cretinous wing-nuts. Try dropping in on your local Episcopal Church for mass some Sunday. You'll be surprised. There really is a Christian Left, and I am humbled to be called to its ranks.

btw...this is not a pendulum swing. This time republicans "exposed" themselves proudly as detrimental to democracy and nearly completely turned America into a fascist corporate state, wrecking America almost beyond recognition. I say "almost" because given another 4yrs they would have succeeded.

They cultivated fear, hatred and ignorance in shocking degree and continue to do so.

They must be eliminated from government wherever they are found. They can throw money at each other and the media all they want but it won't save them. National health care reform will prove to be their ultimate defeat because it is necessary, would be a completely successful program and best for the people of America but trying to be stopped because of greed and the loss of campaign donations.

They became the party of hypocrisy by claiming "Country First" while obstructing everything that is good for the people of this country standing only for the wealthy elite and multinational corporations...and this time (thanks to the internet)their hypocrisy has been exposed and the people have seen them for the greedy self centered people they are. It's over for this obstructionist party who have demonstrated they would rather see the country fail than to lose power. The majority has said "screw them and the Jeebus they rode in on".