[...] The Pew Research Center reported recently that party identification -- which had been virtually even in the year or so after 9/11 -- has now shifted back to a four-point edge (33-to-29 percent) for Democrats. And while the GOP leads the Democrats by a couple of percentage points in party identification among men (31-to-29-percent), the Dems have a nine-point lead (37-to-28 percent) among women. So the gender gap is alive and well, at least in terms of party identification.
Among African-American and Hispanic voters, the party split favors Democrats even more: 65-6 and 40-20 respectively.
The gathering in New York is meant specifically to address this.
The number of black delegates there (167 or 6.7 percent) is nearly double what it was in 2000 - the highest percentage since the previous record set in 1912 (6 percent). By comparison, 20.1 percent of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston were African-Americans.
"This dramatic increase in African-American delegate participation is a remarkable showing for the Republican convention, and it will be interesting to see whether it filters into the voting booths come November," says Eddie Williams, president of the nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, an organization of black intellectuals, professionals and elected officials.
"Our polling since the 2000 election has indicated some increasing support for Republicans among younger African-Americans, although as shown in the 2002 midterms, this generally has not translated into more votes for the GOP," says Mr. Williams.
Overall, minorities make up 17 percent of GOP delegates and women make up 44 percent. [...]
| That's the part of Brad Knickerbocker's Christian Science Monitor article "A kinder, gentler Bush?" that caught our attention.
Also: The Pew Research Center's "Democrats Gain Edge in Party Identification"
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