GOP-Identification-2007-Lowest-Last-Two-Decades

January 14, 2008
GOP-Identification-2007-Lowest-Last-Two-Decades

PRINCETON, NJ -- The percentage of Americans who identified as Republicans in 2007 is the
lowest of any of the 20 calendar years since 1988 that Gallup has conducted its interviewing
primarily by telephone. An average of 27.7% of Americans identified as Republicans, based on more than 26,000 Gallup interviews in 2007. The previous low in Republican identification was 28.1% in 1999.

Meanwhile, 32.5% of Americans identified as Democrats and 38.6% as political independents last

year. The latter percentage is on the high end of what Gallup has measured in the last two decades, surpassed by only the 39.1% independent identification average from 1995. The high point for Democratic identification came in 1988, when 35.6% said they were Democrats.