Survey Findings: Republican Party makes big gains

Fifty-two percent of white voters identified themselves as Republicans compared with 39 percent Democrats

WASHINGTON: The Republican Party has made big gains among white voters, particularly younger and poorer ones, since Democrat Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, according to a survey released on Friday. Fifty-two percent of white voters identified themselves as Republicans compared with 39 percent who called themselves Democrats in the survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The rest said they were independents. The survey also showed Republicans losing ground among Hispanic voters and picking up slightly among black voters since 2008.



Published in The Express Tribune, July 23^rd, 2011.