More Americans Identify as Independents while Democratic and Republican parties have lost the confidence of the People… ~Ron
January 8, 2014
PRINCETON, NJ – Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008.
Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents
The percentage of Americans identifying as independents grew over the course of 2013, surging to 46% in the fourth quarter. That coincided with the partial government shutdown in October and the problematic rollout of major provisions of the healthcare law, commonly known as “Obamacare.”
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…the general trend in recent years, including the 2012 election year, has been toward greater percentages of Americans identifying with neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party…
The rise in political independence is likely an outgrowth of Americans’ record or near-record negative views of the two major U.S. parties, of Congress, and their low level of trust in government more generally.
Read more: gallup.com
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Seventy percent of people surveyed said they aren’t confident in the government’s ability “to make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/194230-poll-public-lacks-confidence-in-government
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Source: AP
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/poll-americans-have-little-faith-government
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