Please don’t downvote articles that are not disinformation.
We must stay vigilant to strengthen democracy. Nothing is a given now.
aaaand someone downvoted your comment lol
Nothing like an election year to make me feel even less like an American than I thought I could ever feel. I was born here to a family that’s been her since before the Revolution and I simply cannot fathom the minds of my fellow countrymen.
Psst. If you ask them they will say you’re not their countrymen.
I’m fine with that.
But we out number them. Can’t it be that they’re not our countrymen.
I can post some sources but this is a bit misleading. There has been a significant drop in registered Democrats and Republicans over the last decade. There are more Independant registered voters than before. As a matter of fact the percentages flipped from being just under 30% as registered Independant to about 45% or so.
The “leaning” Democrat and Republican have stayed about the same and fairly even split but they aren’t “shifting to the Republican party”.
Since it looks exactly like the chart in the sources I’ve cited in the past here in the Fed, I’m sure the article (I didn’t bother looking at an archive to bypass the paywall) cites the same source that will show anyone that looks the truth.
One good example of this is Colorado, which has a large and growing percentage of Independents who have turned the state from deep red into a solid blue bastion for the Democrats.
The data cites identification as % of the total population though? And it isn’t just registration, it’s how people identify or lean. So I think this is a different source than yours. Can you share yours, since it seems to be at odds with this? Or maybe it’s just that more Is lean R
Looks like the graph from Gallup that I cited a few months ago in this post, though this one is updated. Though you should also combine that with Gallups data here around the same period where you can see though people as a part of that survey were identifying as Dem/Dem Leaning or Rep/Rep Leaning, specific parties affiliation shows a different picture (I cited that one here).
What I took away from that, that people that were Dem Leaning/Rep Leaning weren’t necessarily considering themselves as a part of either party but between 41 (2020) and 45% (2023) considered themselves Independent instead of identifying as an actual member of either caucus: Reps 30% (2020) and 27% (2022) vs. Dems 28% (2020) and 27% (2022).
I also wonder if they take into account strategic Voters I know this last few elections i am registered republican but I’m far left of democrats and vote for the weakest republican in the primary and vote dem in the general.
More white uneducated voters* shit ass title. We already know uneducated white people tend to be Republican.
Did you read the article? It talks about a number of different groups.
It’s paywalled for me 😕
Sorry, I only get 10 gift articles a month, so I save them for big stuff. Off the top of my head, I remember white women, Hispanic people, and Black men being discussed on top of noncollege white people.
A bunch of us have extra gift allowance, nytimes and/or Wapo.
Maybe tag gift articles [gift article] or something, vs put a request for re-gifting in the description?
Unfortunately, at least with my app, Sync, I can’t see if OP has provided a gift link, so it helps to ask.
And thanks for all the posts!
That most recent tick looks promising though. D’s going back up.
Not the full article unfortunately.
This one worked for me - https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Ei6FU
Donald Trump is going to be president again. :/
I sure fucking hope not
Same, but… 🤷🏻♂️
