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| Voters Moving to the Right Across Almost Every Demographic, Says Massive Survey |
| 2022-08-25 |
[PJ] Morning Consult has reported five years’ worth of data from over 8.6 million participants that shows a trend of America’s registered voters moving steadily to the ideological right."The left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate, Morning Consult research shows, with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years," writes Morning Consult political reporter Eli Yokley. "But that doesn’t mean the country is lurching to the right." Yokley then makes an effort to pretend the trend isn’t what it looks like: "Instead, an increase in the share of Americans who identify as moderate, or who are uncertain about where exactly they stand on the ideological spectrum, reveals a growing and electorally decisive center that is discontented with either side’s extremes." Except that the percentage of voters who identify as conservative actually increased slightly, while only those who call themselves liberal decreased. Call me crazy but that just sounds like Democrats are turning away from far-left ideology to become more moderate: The share of the electorate who identifies as "very liberal," "liberal" or "somewhat liberal" on a seven-point scale has dropped over the past five years, from 34% to 27%, according to extensive annual Morning Consult survey research conducted among more than 8.6 million U.S. voters since 2017. Meanwhile, "Even as Democratic voters drift toward the middle, the data shows that the Republican Party’s adherents are shifting further to the right — and it’s happening quickly," writes Yokley. Or to put it another way, the whole country is moving in a rightward direction. This trend is concurrent with the largest group of people consistently falling into the conservative camp — 39% in 2022, from 38% in 2017. Meanwhile, the liberal cohort has shrunk from a high of 34% in 2017 to a mere 27% as of now. Moderates and folks who don’t know what they are round out the results at 27% five years ago and 35% today. Also, the intensity is all ours on the right: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 I didn't leave the party, they left me. RR |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-08-25 11:32 |
| #4 "I'm hiring grievance lawyers to comb through a board game you have pledged to support, and if you don't unconditionally support Black Lives Matter then you are the problem!" "Well then. Fuck your game and my pledge. Bye." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-25 10:51 |
| #3 What Steve Said. The far left abandoned the more centrist left skewing everything. Of course the more centrist left are probably seeing their crazy lefties and shuffling a bit more to the right as they give up on previously cherished beliefs now taken to their logical insane conclusions. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-08-25 10:41 |
| #2 Voters moving to the right or Democrats moving en masse to the left? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-08-25 10:14 |
| #1 An updated Dominion algorithm will be needed to correct this anomaly. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-25 04:29 |