If our Democratic Party is being torn apart by this divisive and demoralizing Presidential primary, wouldn’t you expect Americans to turn away from the party in droves?

If the silliness of both candidates’ supporters made neutral observers sick and tired of partisan politics, wouldn’t you imagine that fewer Americans would call themselves Democrats?

If the long, drawn-out primary process was wearing people out and souring them on the party, wouldn’t you think the percentage of Americans who call themselves Democrats would go down?

WASHINGTON – More people say they are Democrats than said so before voting started in this year’s presidential contests while the number of Republicans has remained flat, a survey showed Thursday.

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The poll showed 52 percent call themselves Democrats, up from 45 percent in an AP-Ipsos survey in mid-December. Thirty-five percent say they are Republicans, about the same as December’s 37 percent.

Surveys in recent months have shown more people have favorable opinions of the Democratic Party than the GOP. There has also been far higher turnout in Democratic presidential primaries this year than in GOP contests, in part reflecting that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama continue grappling for the nomination.

So when you read that "Democrats are in disarray" and "this primary system is killing the party" and "the GOP must be loving this," do not believe it. Because it is not true.

A majority of Americans now call themselves Democrats. That percentage rose throughout our Presidential primary process as our many compelling candidates debated across this country, proposing commonsense solutions to the problems faced by American families. And those candidates offered Americans an alternative to the corruption, warmongering, crony mismanagement, and inhuman callousness of the past seven years.

This process is working, and Americans are listening.

And they like what they hear. Americans are joining us in this fight to take back our country. They are turning out to vote in record numbers. They are opening their wallets and purses and piggybanks to our candidates in unheard-of amounts. They are investing in this campaign with their votes and their dollars and their time and their hearts. And Americans are calling themselves Democrats.

A great change is coming. The media mavens and press poohbahs will do everything they can to drown it out. They do not want us to hear it. But the numbers do not lie: our party is growing.

Change is now abroad in our land. Let’s be the change.