GOP base has shriveled compared to last presidential election
GOP base has shriveled compared to last presidential election
The percentage of people affiliated with the Republican Party has declined in recent years, per polling firm Gallup.
The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election.
The polling firm Gallup, which tracks party affiliation monthly, says that those identifying as Republicans has shrunk by two percentage points since 2020. In February 2020, 30 percent of those Gallup polled said they were Republicans, while 29 percent considered themselves Democrats.
As of February 2024, when the latest data is available, 28 percent say they are Republicans, while 30 percent say they are Democrats, showing Republican's base declining. Newsweek contacted the Republican National Committee (RNC) by email to comment on this story.
Has it shriveled, or has it slightly declined? You can’t have both.
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41Is this a copypasta? Because it’s pretty good.
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35What, like a turtle?
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I’m not even sure this qualifies as any kind of decline. Surely this is within the margin of error.
16It's evidence that progress really is marching forward one grave at a time.
8It really doesn't. I'm sure their error margins are larger than 1%. It could totally be the democratic party that has shrunk and the republican party has grown if the error is bad enough (which it almost certainly isn't, but I'm trying to make a point). I'm not clicking that article though. I'm not going to justify that headline.
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The fact that the base has only "slightly declined" is incredibly bad news, considering that the Republicans' shift towards the deep end of fascism has been way more than "slight!"
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32I know someone who still calls themselves a Republican but hasn't voted for a Republican in the general election in decades. They argue that they are still a Republican at heart, but all the republican candidates have been terrible.
They said they were going to vote for McCain, but when he picked palin, they couldn't vote for that either.
This applies down ballot. They do vote in the GOP primaries, but their preferred candidates almost always lose.
18I don't disagree, but it's cold comfort when the result is the same.
5Dear America: You are waking up to the fact, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3 while the last 1/3 watches.-
Some dude on Twitter pretending to be Werner Herzog
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54To be fair they could be legitimately honest there. If I was asked that question I wouldn't claim Democrat because I'm further left than the old guard Dems and the party at a national level. I would never vote republican.
14...or it may show that neither party is growing but Republicans are dying faster.
13Lots of Republicans lived free without a mask or vaccine and are dead now
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Don't care.
Vote.
38There was a 2% decrease over 4 years. 30% to 28%. Hardly "shriveling."
32And that 2% drop was probably people who will vote for Trump but didn't want the survey taker to know if
15Turns out conservatives love authoritarianism and just want to be ruled by a king.
Who would've thought the political ideology spawned to conserve the influence of landowners, aristocracy, and monarchy post democratic revolution would turn out to be such of bunch of auth dickholes?
8The 2% are the dead Republicans that refused to wear a mask to "own the libs"
8Or just old bastards who have been voting for Reaganomics for forty years and can't figure out why the rich get richer and they can't afford healthcare.
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Can we just lock journalists in cages until they memorize a gradeschool dictionary please?
5maybe they were in the pool
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You mean "died." All the COVID conspiracies were from the right and they didn't wear masks, sucked down horse dewormer, and travelled like they won the lottery. They asked for this, they DEMANDED this.
30FAFO is what comes to mind
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Gee, maybe convincing them vaccines are the devil had negative repercussions
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It kinda looks like the elephant is wearing jeans.
19Agreed, we need to be talking about this more.
7Unironically worth much more of my attention than the article. I need more elephants in jeans. Are there equivalent donkeys in jeans? If not, let’s call out the rampant media bias and do something about it (specifically making more images of animals wearing jeans).
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Let me just point out that as long as the Republican base remain highly-motivated voters, they will still continue to win and to dominate. If people that identified as Demoratic voters were 72%, and Republicans were 28%, it would be a tossup in US politics if they showed up to polls at 90%, and Dems at the more typical 35%. If you don't want Trump in office, and you want to actually see him end up in jail for the wide variety of federal and state crimes he's committed, get your ass out and vote for Biden--yes, yes, he's not even close to being my first choice either--and make sure everyone you know votes for Biden.
122% is margin of error territory
9What matters most is not what they publicly say, but how they privately vote.
So many people said Trump made them feel safe to show their true feelings. People are staying racist and fascist, just learning to keep it quiet again
6i dont think the landslides are uncommon.
the whole tiktok fiasco could trigger anger in genZ into becoming politically active.could also somehow still fall into regressive republican hands too. imho
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