A Gallup poll found the split between Republicans and Democrats about their satisfaction with the direction of the country was at its widest since 2001.
I was just listening to an explanation of this effectively fake bit of information this morning. Basically, at least in MA and other states like it, both dems and republicans saw a drop in registration because registrations work differently now. Where registrations are automatic, they don’t default to a party affiliation and you have to actively select such, which most people aren’t going to do. As a result, an absolutely enormous proportion of registrations are now unaffiliated and BOTH parties are more or less taking a hit–however, because Dems get more registrations historically anyway and many of those are now no longer going in to register just party affiliation, they seem disproportionately hit. End of the day, not much is really changing that we can understand from the voting registrations, but we’ll see what happens in the midterms.
Oh interesting, i haven’t heard that fluffy little bit of cope. Every publication I’ve seen that’s covering the initial NYT drop is confirming the results from 4 years of data and they have a dozen bullet points of explanation.
But I haven’t heard that very comfy sounding one yet, you have the podcast link or article i can dig into?
This was discussed in the latest episode of the Horse Race. It’s a MA politics and news podcast so that was their focus. I’ve no idea how this relates to other states
I was just listening to an explanation of this effectively fake bit of information this morning. Basically, at least in MA and other states like it, both dems and republicans saw a drop in registration because registrations work differently now. Where registrations are automatic, they don’t default to a party affiliation and you have to actively select such, which most people aren’t going to do. As a result, an absolutely enormous proportion of registrations are now unaffiliated and BOTH parties are more or less taking a hit–however, because Dems get more registrations historically anyway and many of those are now no longer going in to register just party affiliation, they seem disproportionately hit. End of the day, not much is really changing that we can understand from the voting registrations, but we’ll see what happens in the midterms.
Oh interesting, i haven’t heard that fluffy little bit of cope. Every publication I’ve seen that’s covering the initial NYT drop is confirming the results from 4 years of data and they have a dozen bullet points of explanation.
But I haven’t heard that very comfy sounding one yet, you have the podcast link or article i can dig into?
This was discussed in the latest episode of the Horse Race. It’s a MA politics and news podcast so that was their focus. I’ve no idea how this relates to other states