A Portent of Things to Come

Áine on January 23rd, 2006 filed in Politics

According to the latest data (.pdf) at the Pew Research Center, the Democratic Party holds a sizable advantage over the GOP as the party better able to handle the country’s most important problem (which is currently the war in Iraq). Fully 41% believe the Democratic Party can do a better job of handling the nation’s top problem, compared with 27% who say the Republican Party. This represents a major shift from a year ago, when the public split about evenly on which party could better address the most important national problem.

That 14-point gap is the largest measured by either Pew or Gallup since this question was first asked in 1987. By way of comparison, the GOP had an 11-point advantage on this measure in March, 2002 and a 3-point advantage in July, 1994.

- via MoJo

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