In June of 1978 there was 5,610,357 registered democrats to 3,450,469 registered republicans.
In January of 2012 there was 7,424,334 registered democrats to 5,176,600 registered democrats.


There's still 2 million more registered democrats today then there was in 1978 and it's going up while repubs numbers continue to go down. I understand what point you are trying to make about the independent voters. I would imagine it was more of them being fed up with either of the parties then a changing of ideals.

I can't find the chart I was looking at yesterday but each year more and more people are voting democrat then republican.

And yet even with that, the state is still less liberal than it was 25 years ago.

 

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So in your cut up explanation of these numbers you see the flat increase in the number of registered Dems, but you don't see the flat increase in the number of Reps?

 

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Of course I did, but as time goes on, the repubes are losing more and more voters and the democrats are growing. Since 2008 the repubes lost 3% whereas the democrats gained 1%.

Can you count to potato?

Over the same time period - Dems saw an increase of ~33%, Reps saw an increase of ~50%...

 

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