Poll: GOP Makes Across the Board Gains Heading to 2012

US News and World Report reports:

The Republican Party has made big gains across geographic, gender, educational, and socioeconomic lines, according to a report released today by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. But even as the GOP is better positioned going into 2012 than it was in 2008, the data shows that the key to victory going forward remains in appealing to independent voters.


According to Pew, registered voters who identify as Republican or leaning Republican have made substantial gains across many demographic groups since 2008, most notably among whites, voters under 30, and Americans making $75,000 or less per year. Forty-seven percent of registered voters currently identify as Democratic or leaning Democratic, compared to 43 percent who identify as Republicans or leaning Republican, with a margin of error of 1.5 percent. That represents a net eight-point gain for the GOP since 2008, when the figures were 51 percent for Democrats and 39 percent for the GOP (with a 1-percent margin of error).

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