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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
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
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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?"


Graph of Response:


Percent among demographic groups who responded:

 
 
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)


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