That’s not quite it either. It’s 60% of independent voters, so it also doesn’t include MAGA. It’s the swing voters, which happen to be the only voters who really matter.
But, fortunately for the GOP, they’re also easily swayed by the “both sides” narratives and can be disillusioned into staying home instead of voting. It’s why voter turnout is one of the biggest predictors in whether the Dems or the GOP will win an election. Independent voters have trended more leftward in recent elections because the GOP is fucking insane.
Technically several states don’t even have party registration, mine included (that changed after I first registered to vote so I’m not sure what my registration looks like now, I can’t change it if I wanted to), which has the effect of making everyone in the state an independent voter.
So while ideologically it may be true that there are no undecided voters, that’s not really what they are looking at.
I’ll disagree here. I’m one of those mythical independent voters. I have no party affiliation, and subscribe to Jefferson’s philosophy:
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
However, most conservatives see me as a lefty, because most of my views, especially on social issues, are consistent with left-wing policies.
That’s not quite it either. It’s 60% of independent voters, so it also doesn’t include MAGA. It’s the swing voters, which happen to be the only voters who really matter.
But, fortunately for the GOP, they’re also easily swayed by the “both sides” narratives and can be disillusioned into staying home instead of voting. It’s why voter turnout is one of the biggest predictors in whether the Dems or the GOP will win an election. Independent voters have trended more leftward in recent elections because the GOP is fucking insane.
There is no such thing as an independent in the United States. It has been code for “conservative” for decades and its a core part of Trumps base.
Technically several states don’t even have party registration, mine included (that changed after I first registered to vote so I’m not sure what my registration looks like now, I can’t change it if I wanted to), which has the effect of making everyone in the state an independent voter.
So while ideologically it may be true that there are no undecided voters, that’s not really what they are looking at.
I’ll disagree here. I’m one of those mythical independent voters. I have no party affiliation, and subscribe to Jefferson’s philosophy:
However, most conservatives see me as a lefty, because most of my views, especially on social issues, are consistent with left-wing policies.