More Americans Now Identify as Republican than Democrat for First Time in Decades, Poll

The tipping point is here. More Americans are identifying as Republicans than Democrats for the first time in decades in what appears to be a grand awakening to the Washington establishment, according to a new Gallup poll.

Forty-eight percent of respondents to the poll said they either identify as Republicans or are leaning Republican for the upcoming election, compared with 45 percent who identified as Democrats.

Breitbart reports that the Gallup analysts also said that “nearly all” measures that have shown some relationship to past presidential election outcomes favor the GOP.

“By 46 percent to 41 percent, Americans say the Republican Party is better able than the Democratic Party to address what they think is the most important problem facing the country,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones wrote.

“The top issues Americans currently name as the most important are ones that tend to favor the GOP, including the economy (24 percent), immigration (22 percent), the government (17 percent) and inflation (15 percent).”

The last time that even the same number of Americans identified as Republican and Democrat in the third quarter of an election year (July to September) was in 2004, when former President George W. Bush won his second term.

Even when former President Donald Trump was successful in his 2016 election bid, only 43 percent of respondents identified with Republicans, compared to the Democrats’ 46 percent.

Republican political consultant Frank Luntz shared the graph showing how Republicans have won in the past, even with an even or disadvantaged playing field according to Gallup’s third-quarter poll: