{"id":14164,"date":"2012-02-01T02:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-01T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T03:03:06","slug":"republican-registration-continues-to-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/01\/republican-registration-continues-to-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Registration Continues to Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>GOP is in danger of falling below 30%<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><TABLE BORDER=1 align=right><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Party<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> Feb 1999<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> January 2008<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> January 2012<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Democratic<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 46.72%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 42.71%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 43.63%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Republican<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 35.27%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 33.45%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 30.36%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>NPP<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 12.89%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 19.38%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 21.24%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>For the last decade, the big winner in party registration has been no party at all. Decline to state, now known as no party preference, has boomed from just under 13% in 1999 to 21.24% in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/ror\/ror-pages\/154day-presprim-12\">latest numbers released by the Sec. of State&#8217;s office today<\/a>. &nbsp;While Democratic numbers have fluctuated in the lower 40s, Republican numbers continue to creep downwards. &nbsp;If the trend continues, the GOP may fall below 30% in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that the GOP is rapidly losing adherents, what with the far right extreme becoming dominant within the Party of Reagan (n\u00e9e Lincoln). But with district maps that require Republicans to compete for the middle, the question is whether they really can do that. &nbsp;These numbers certainly don&#8217;t bode well for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>GOP is in danger of falling below 30%<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p><TABLE BORDER=1 align=right><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Party<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> Feb 1999<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> January 2008<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> January 2012<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Democratic<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 46.72%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 42.71%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 43.63%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>Republican<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 35.27%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 33.45%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 30.36%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n  <TD>NPP<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 12.89%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 19.38%<\/TD><br \/>\n  <TD> 21.24%<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>For the last decade, the big winner in party registration has been no party at all. Decline to state, now known as no party preference, has boomed from just under 13% in 1999 to 21.24% in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/ror\/ror-pages\/154day-presprim-12\">latest numbers released by the Sec. of State&#8217;s office today<\/a>. &nbsp;While Democratic numbers have fluctuated in the lower 40s, Republican numbers continue to creep downwards. &nbsp;If the trend continues, the GOP may fall below 30% in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that the GOP is rapidly losing adherents, what with the far right extreme becoming dominant within the Party of Reagan (n\u00e9e Lincoln). But with district maps that require Republicans to compete for the middle, the question is whether they really can do that. &nbsp;These numbers certainly don&#8217;t bode well for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[5165,23],"class_list":["post-14164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-5165","tag-23"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}