Gallup: For The First Time In Decades, More Voters Identify As GOP

A new Gallup poll states that a number of issues favor Republicans in the 2024 election, chief among them the fact that more Americans identify as Republicans than Democrats.

In an average of Gallup polls taken between July and September, 48% of voters surveyed either identified as Republicans or leaned Republican, while 45% of the voters identified as Democrats or leaned Democrat. 46% of voters thought that the GOP was better able to handle the most important problem facing the country, as opposed to 41% who chose the Democrats. Gallup listed the issues that voters thought were most important as the economy and immigration.

50% of voters deemed the GOP better equipped to keep America prosperous, while 46% thought the Democrats would do the job better. A whopping difference came between the 54% of voters who thought the GOP was better able to keep America safe from international threats and the 40% who chose the Democrats.

Other indications favoring the GOP could be derived from voter disaffection with Democrats and the Biden-Harris administration. Only 22% of voters said they were currently satisfied with the state of affairs; only 39% expressed approval of the job President Biden and his administration have done, and the economic index had a -28 score.

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The economic index rating is “derived from the 22% of Americans describing current economic conditions as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ versus the 48% saying they are ‘poor,’ and the 32% believing the economy is ‘getting better’ versus the 62% saying it is ‘getting worse,’” Gallup pointed out.

Democrats have led in party affiliation since the age of Ronald Reagan except for 2004, a Gallup graph showed. Gallup stated, “Republicans previously have not had an outright advantage in party affiliation during the third quarter of a presidential election year. Gallup noted, “Democrats have won presidential elections in years in which they had larger-than-normal advantages in party affiliation, including 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012 and 2020. In years when the advantage was narrower — 2004 and 2016, for example — Republicans won in the electoral college if not also the popular vote.”