Data Shows Number of Registered Democrats Continues to Plunge
By
AAN Staff -
March 2, 2020
Democrats’ hopes that a backlash against President Donald Trump would lead to a “blue wave†of new party members is crashing into reality as new data show the number of registered Democrats in the U.S. continues a years-long decline.
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Numbers compiled by Ballot Access News from the 31 states with voter registration by party show 39.66 percent of America’s registered voters are Democrats, a drop from 40.6 percent in 2016.
Democrats saw their share rise under Obama, from 42.19 percent in 2004 to 43.62 percent during his successful 2008 campaign. Any expectation Trump’s unpopularity would continue to add to those numbers has fallen flat as Democrat registration dropped sharply once Obama left office.
But there’s not much to celebrate for Republicans, who have always trailed Democrats in national registration numbers and are also seeing declines. In 2004 Republicans made up 32.79 percent of all voters, and have since fallen to just 28.87 percent.
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