Now Pew Research has come out with figures for 2011. They're not good news for Barack Obama and the Democrats.

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This issue of Political Report covers approval ratings of President Barack Obama's first year in office; changes in party and ideological identification over the past year and decade; polls on the condition of the national economy, abortion, and the upcoming British elections; and more.

Baby boomers who came of age during the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s tended to call themselves Democrats. But starting in the 1980s, attitudes of the baby boomers began changing. If this transformation continues, leading more of them to embrace the GOP, it could affect the 2012 election.

"We're not going to lose in New Hampshire." So says Mitt Romney's state coordinator Jason McBride. Whether that confidence is well founded may determine the fate of the candidate who has been the on-and-off front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

A close look at a major voting group--aging baby boomers--shows that this growing demographic is becoming more conservative.

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

One constant factor in the 14 contests with exit polls is that Mitt Romney has tended to run best among high-income and high-education voters. His leading opponents -- Newt Gingrich in South Carolina and Georgia, Ron Paul in Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia, and Rick Santorum everywhere else -- have run best among low-income and low-education voters.