The Wall Street Journal had a fun opinion article on Page 2 this morning. Jerry Seib took a look at a recent WSJ/NBC poll showing that Republican self-identification was down to 31 percent, versus 37% eight years ago, and that a larger share of Americans self-identify as Democrats (42%), and did his best to make lemonade out of those very sour lemons.
Seib hopefully interprets the numbers as indicating that "the GOP might be able to start climbing out of its hole, which is precisely what some party leaders are trying to do by launching a new effort to reach out to the grass roots across the country."
Here's the chart derived from the poll:
Follow on for another way to intepret the chart.