• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    nearly half

    Half of what? I see it’s voters, so, the democrats? Wow, really cool journalism, who could have seen that one coming!

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      5 months ago

      Having read the article, that ‘half of voters’ includes 20% of republicans, 80% of democrats and 52% of independents.

      That’s a bit more meaningful than your flippant ‘voters = democrats’

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      5 months ago

      Republicans are not half of the population. They use gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college to have an outsized influence.

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        5 months ago

        They do, but:

        The partisan identification of registered voters is now evenly split between the two major parties: 49% of registered voters are Democrats or lean to the Democratic Party, and a nearly identical share – 48% – are Republicans or lean to the Republican Party.

        Source: Pew Research