are campaign staffers more liberal than the mainstream voter? is that a problem?
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i'm retired. what's your excuse?
As a result, Democrats end up spending a lot of time talking about issues that matter to college-educated liberals but not to the multiracial bloc of moderate voters that the party needs to win over to secure governing majorities in Washington.
Republican and Democratic affiliation in 2020.In the longer term, however, the party will have to elevate the policy and messaging preferences of its moderate Black, Hispanic and working-class supporters over the preferences of young, highly-educated and liberal staffers.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2 ... -religion/Around two-thirds of registered voters in the U.S. (65%) do not have a college degree, while 36% do. But the share of voters with a college degree has risen substantially since 1996, when 24% had one.
Voters who identify with the Democratic Party or lean toward it are much more likely than their Republican counterparts to have a college degree (41% vs. 30%). In 1996, the reverse was true: 27% of GOP voters had a college degree, compared with 22% of Democratic voters.
I'm not good at reading crystal balls or tea leaves. The demographics of the two political parties has changed over the years and In addition to the divide over college vs non-college education there is also a gender divide between the two parties.lurker wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:36 amare you saying that in 30 yrs or so, we'll be trying to overthrow the govt?highdesert wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:10 am
Used to be that the Democrats were the party of non-college graduates and union workers and Republicans were the party of highly educated college graduates.
Except most independents aren't. They're overwhelmingly partisan, just unaffiliated. Not all of them - but party switchers tend to be low-information voters.highdesert wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:09 pm In the end maybe we become less partisan as Independents keep growing larger.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/part ... ation.aspx
We've had one party actively calling to drown the government in the bathtub so capital can operate without restraint since the Reagan era. I'm not saying you're wrong. Just a reminder that sardonic understatement is more characteristic of the Finnish sense of humor than the British.sikacz wrote: Our country needs to step back to basics. Understanding what government is for and it’s relationship to the people needs to be re-examined.
wings wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:40 pmExcept most independents aren't. They're overwhelmingly partisan, just unaffiliated. Not all of them - but party switchers tend to be low-information voters.highdesert wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:09 pm In the end maybe we become less partisan as Independents keep growing larger.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/part ... ation.aspx
We've had one party actively calling to drown the government in the bathtub so capital can operate without restraint since the Reagan era. I'm not saying you're wrong. Just a reminder that sardonic understatement is more characteristic of the Finnish sense of humor than the British.sikacz wrote: Our country needs to step back to basics. Understanding what government is for and it’s relationship to the people needs to be re-examined.
lurker wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:31 pm i lean, but that party does not have all of my interests (2a) at heart. so i registered as indy in georgia in 95.
Well said.lurker wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:50 pm reenacting led to the 2nd amendment for me. i formed an opinion about what the purpose of the 2nd was and still is. i've never been especially interested in social, political or economic theory (they are theory after all), but had read enough world and US history in school and on my own to conclude that a democratic republic, while imperfect and occasionally prone to excess, is superior to any other form of government, and that an individual right to, and access to the means of, self-defense were essential underpinnings to that principle. what i do intensely dislike is authoritarianism of whatever color, red, black or paisley. consent of the governed and all that.
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