The Caterwaulers

Much press this week has gone to coverage of the angry mobs (ostensibly Republicans) at the town halls.

These uncivil crowds want democracy in American, so long as they get their way. They believe in free speech, so long as they're the only ones speaking.

So this caused me to take a look at some statistics regarding party affiliation.

I'll try to make this as interesting and short as possible.

With all of the caterwauling that goes on, you would think that the Republicans have a majority voice in America.

This is not true.

In Gallup polls running from January, 2004 to now, the only time a majority of voters identified themselves as Republican was February 2005. Read that again: There was only once in the past five years where a majority of voters identified themselves as Republican.

For that same time frame, a majority of voters identified themselves as Democratic around 48 times.

Out of the nearly 180 polls conducted during this time, only seven times did voters identifying themselves as Republican have higher a percentage than Democrats. Only seven times. The remainder of the polls went Democratic (with around a dozen ties).

So why do these people think that they have the right to cut off debate on health care reform? Why do they think they can control whether a sick or injured person can afford medical care?

Their numbers certainly don't provide that power. But their intimidating methods seem to be able compensate for their minority status.

We must do everything we can to keep these people out of power!

See this site for the source of these facts: http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx