But, of course, party identification is always a factor.
It's more a commentary that party identification is less important than it was.
A similar effect may be occurring in the important question of party identification.
Political Scientists have developed many ways to measure party identification in order to examine and evaluate it.
By the late 1990s, party identification on voting behavior was at the highest level of any election since the 1950s.
The reasons are many, ranging from population shifts to an erosion of party identification.
There is strong evidence to prove that in the presidential popularity and party identification move together.
Macropartisanship shows that people respond to the political world when making up their party identification.
To many leading Republicans, however, party identification is the issue.
The young voters stayed most Republican in party identification, with another 37-to-37 split.