Sorry for the quick diary but I have to put Jr. to bed. It appears that the traitorous rhetoric coming from the GOP and their activist teabaggers is alienating a large percentage of military members. Or it could be that they see how bad GOPers have been for the economy. Or how inciteful and hateful they are. Etc. etc. etc.
Political party affiliation has fallen sharply among those wearing the uniform today, a new Military Times survey shows.
An exclusive survey of some 1,800 active-duty troops shows the percentage of self-identified Republicans has decreased by one-third since 2004, from 60 percent to 41 percent, while the percentage of self-identified independents has nearly doubled to 32 percent during the same period.
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Much of the shift appears to have occurred only very recently, with the percentage of troops identifying themselves as Republican dropping nine percentage points from 2008 to 2009 and the percentage of those calling themselves independents increasing 10 points over the same period.
http://www.navytimes.com/...