Gallup asked respondents to "please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Republican party," and then asked the same question about Democrats. Forty-five percent of those polled say they have a favorable opinion of the GOP, while 48 percent say they have an unfavorable opinion, with seven percent having no opinion. The 45 percent favorable number is up five points from October, while the 48 percent unfavorable is down two points from the same time. The GOP favorable number is, however, down significantly from 56 percent favorable in February of this year.
For the Democrats, 46 percent say they have a favorable opinion of the party, while 45 percent have an unfavorable opinion, and nine percent have no opinion. The 46 percent favorable number is down six points from October, while the 45 percent unfavorable is up nine points from the same time. Also, the 46 percent favorable figure is down six points from the party's favorable rating in February.
Those are some interesting results considering the blitz Democrats and the media have been running against the Bush administration. For three months, since Dem Minority Leader Harry Reid shut down the senate on October 30th, the Democrats have been on an all-out attack mission against the President, the intelligence used to go to war in Iraq, the war in Iraq itself and, most recently, the President's tactics in the war on terror. They've been assisted every step of the way by the always leftist-friendly media, yet all this boisterous disapproval of the President and Republicans in general has resulted in lower numbers for the Democrat party.
These low numbers, coupled with this blowback from moderate Democrats and these poll results showing majority Democrat support for Bush's domestic spying policies, tell me one thing: Democrats are getting it wrong on national security.