from Huffington Post and by Marcus Baram The decline and fall of the Republican Party in recent years has been so widespread that the party has lost support among nearly every major demographic subgroup of likely voters across the country, according to a new Gallup poll.
The party lost support among a broad swath of Americans, from conservative to liberal, low-income to high-income, married to unmarried, and elderly to young.
The only subgroup in which the party saw a slight increase in support from 2001 to 2009 was frequent churchgoers.
The biggest declines, of roughly 10 percent, occurred among the college-educated, 18 to 29-year-olds, and Midwestern voters.
The turning point was 2005, after Hurricane Katrina and Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, when the party's support really started to free-fall, according to Gallup: "By the end of 2008, the party had its worst positioning against the Democrats in nearly two decades."
M.C.L comment: Here's the duh statement of the century here, the Republicans are caught between a loon and a hard place. The Republicans have depended on the far right for election success so much they allow them to take over the party. Even after the last election you still had portions of Republicans think the only reason John McCain lost to Barack Obama was because McCain wasn't right wing enough.
And speaking of the election if you get a chance to see it on HBO, do watch the hour long documentary "Right America feeling wrong" if anything you see the reasons the Republicans find themselves in the state they are.
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