GOP is losing ground in party-affiliation polling

So what else is new here? The Republicans facing losses, depression, and suicide. When you're a Republican and you're not in the top 2 percent of income earners, your outlook is only bad and worse.

GOP is losing ground in party-affiliation polling
Republicans' inherent advantage in Electoral College math might be gone

The Iraq war had certainly taken a toll on the GOP's image, as had various scandals and a general dissatisfaction with Congress and Washington, which has been under total Republican control for five of the last six years.

A recent report by the Gallup Organization provided further corroboration of this theory. Each year Gallup aggregates the results of all of its national political surveys for the year and takes a look at party identification.