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Strength of Partisanship  1952-2004


                           '52  '54  '56  '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
Independent or Apolitical    9   11   13   11   12   12    9   13   12   14   15   18   15   16   15   13   13   14   12   12   13   12   10   12   13    9   10 
      Leaning Independent   17   15   15   12   13   13   15   16   19   18   22   22   22   24   22   19   23   21   25   24   27   25   26   24   28   28   29 
            Weak Partisan   39   40   37   39   39   40   38   43   40   39   39   35   39   37   37   38   35   37   32   34   32   33   34   34   27   33   28 
          Strong Partisan   35   35   36   38   36   35   38   28   30   29   25   26   24   23   26   30   29   28   31   30   29   30   30   29   31   31   33
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                       N  1784 1130 1757 1808 1911 1287 1550 1278 1553 1501 2694 2505 2850 2283 1612 1411 2236 2166 2032 1966 2474 1787 1710 1276 1797 1488 1197  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 2A.3
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a
     Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what?"
     (IF REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT) "Would you call yourself a strong
     (REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT) or a not very strong (REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT)?"
     (IF INDEPENDENT, OTHER [1966 and later: OR NO PREFERENCE]:) "Do you
     think of yourself as closer to the Republican or Democratic party?"
       

     NOTE:  
     In 1966, 'don't know' was combined with apolitical.

     This question is variable VCF0305 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  27NOV05