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title: "Hold Favorable View of Republican Party"
description: "That's the percentage of US adults who now say they hold a favorable view of the Republican Party, down 15 points since January 2001."
date: "2007-03-26"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/03/26/hold-favorable-view-of-republican-party/"
---

# Hold Favorable View of Republican Party

Only about four-in-ten US adults now say they hold a favorable view of the Republican Party, down 15 points since January 2001. But while they are now significantly more popular than GOPers, Democrats too have fallen in favor: the proportion of the public expressing a positive view of Democrats has declined by six points, to 54% over the same period.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/434/trends-in-political-values-and-core-attitudes-1987-2007)