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Chris Craig said:
Progressive Left


Very liberal, highly educated and majority White; most say U.S. institutions need to be completely rebuilt because of racial bias


Reflecting their name, Progressive Left have very liberal views across a range of issues – including the size and scope of government, foreign policy, immigration and race. A sizable majority (79%) describe their views as liberal, including 42% who say their views are very liberal – double the share of the next largest group (20% of Outsider Left).

Roughly two-thirds of Progressive Left (68%) are White, non-Hispanic, by far the largest share among Democratic-aligned groups. Progressive Left are the second youngest typology group – 71% are ages 18 to 49. Progressive Left are also highly educated, with about half (48%) holding at least a four-year college degree, making it one of the two most highly educated groups overall.

Progressive Left are more liberal than the three other Democratic-oriented groups on many issues. For example, while majorities in all four of these groups favor a bigger government providing more services, Progressive Left are most likely to express this view. When asked a follow-up question about how much bigger the government should be, 63% of Progressive Left say government services should “greatly expand” from current levels – a far higher share than any other group.

Their liberal outlook is not limited to issues related to the size and scope of government. Their views on race and racial equality also distinguish them from other typology groups: Sizable majorities say White people benefit from societal advantages that Black people do not have and that most U.S. institutions need to be completely rebuilt to ensure equal rights for all Americans regardless of race or ethnicity.

Progressive Left broadly support substantial hikes in tax rates for large corporations and high-income households. They are the only typology group in which a majority express positive views of political leaders who describe themselves as democratic socialists. And Progressive Left are more likely than any other typology group to say there are other countries that are better than the U.S.

Although they are one of the smallest political typology groups, Progressive Left are the most politically engaged group in the Democratic coalition. No other group turned out to vote at a higher rate in the 2020 general election, and those who did nearly unanimously voted for Joe Biden. They donated money to campaigns in 2020 at a higher rate than any other Democratic-oriented group.

Political affiliation, voting and engagement

Nearly all Progressive Left (98%) either identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party: 46% say they strongly identify with the party. About a third (32%) are independents who lean toward the Democratic Party.
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Orion Bailey said:
This is me… most of it is accurate.

6. Ambivalent Right


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Young and politically cross-pressured: Conservative on economics and issues of race and gender, less so on immigration, social issues


On issues ranging from the size of the federal government to views about business, gender and race, Ambivalent Right hold many views that are largely consistent with core conservative values. Yet they also hold more moderate stances on several social issues and differ from some other segments of the GOP coalition in taking a more internationalist view of foreign policy and a less restrictive position on immigration.

Ambivalent Right are a GOP-leaning group as a whole – 68% identify as or lean Republican – and they make up a substantial share of all Republicans and GOP leaners (18%). But this group also includes a significant number of Democrats: A quarter of Ambivalent Right either identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, and a similar share (25%) voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

With 63% of Ambivalent Right adults under the age of 50, they are substantially younger than other Republican-oriented groups. About two-thirds (65%) are White, 17% are Hispanic, 8% are Black and 5% are Asian, making this group more racially and ethnically diverse than other GOP coalition groups.

Ambivalent Right differ from other GOP-aligned groups with their support for legal abortion and less negative views of the impact of same-sex marriage. They also are distinct from other Republican-oriented groups in their views of Donald Trump. Whereas large majorities of each of the other Republican-oriented groups say they feel warmly toward Trump, Ambivalent Right are somewhat more likely to say they feel coldlytoward the former president (46%) than warmly (34%). And most (63%) would not like to see Trump continue to be a major national political figure for many years to come.

Ambivalent Right have also largely rejected the unsubstantiated claim from Trump and others that Trump was the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. Roughly six-in-ten say that Biden definitely or probably received the most votes cast by eligible voters in enough states to win the 2020 election – more than double the share of the Ambivalent Right who voted for Biden, and far higher than the shares in other Republican-aligned groups.

Political affiliation, voting and engagement

About two-thirds of Ambivalent Right (68%) are Republicans or Republican leaners, with a larger share saying they lean toward the Republican Party (41%) than identifying as strong (11%) or not so strong (16%) Republicans. A quarter identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, and an additional 7% say they do not lean toward either party.

The shares of 2020 voters who voted for Trump and Biden are nearly identical to the shares who identify with or lean toward each party: 70% voted for Trump and 25% for Biden.


Ambivalent Right do not feel very warmly toward either Republicans or Democrats. On a “feeling thermometer” ranging from 0-100, where 100 represents the warmest feelings and 0 represents the coldest feelings, Ambivalent Right give Republicans an average rating of 43. Ambivalent Right are cooler toward Democrats, with an average rating of 34. While some of their coolness toward the GOP reflects that 25% of this group are Democrats and Democratic leaners, even Ambivalent Right who identify with or lean to the GOP give Republicans an average feeling thermometer rating of 49, similar to ratings among the group as a whole; the average rating of Democrats (30) is also similar.


Ambivalent Right are less politically engaged than groups with stronger partisan attachments. About half of eligible Ambivalent Right (55%) voted in the 2020 election, 11 percentage points lower than the share of all adult citizens who voted. Ambivalent Right are also less likely than most other groups to say they follow what’s going on in government and politics most of the time.

Ambivalent Right’s distaste for Trump relative to other Republican-oriented groups does not mean that they are particularly warm toward Biden. Six-in-ten say they feel coldly toward Biden, and just two-in-ten approved of his job performance as president as of mid-September.

Ambivalent Right: Key political attitudes and beliefs
On core issues related to the size and role of government, Ambivalent Right hold views that are traditionally associated with the GOP: Most (63%) say that government regulation of business usually does more harm than good, and nearly three-quarters (73%) prefer a smaller government providing fewer services to a bigger government providing more services.


But they diverge from several other Republican-oriented groups on several social issues, immigration and, in some cases, foreign policy.

Just over half (54%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a view held by far smaller shares of those in other GOP groups. And six-in-ten Ambivalent Right say that marijuana should be legal for both recreational and medical use by adults – identical to the share of the overall public saying this, but a view not held by most of those in other GOP-oriented groups. Ambivalent Right also are as likely to say that same-sex marriage being legal is good for society (28%) as to say that it is bad for society (29%); 43% say it is neither good nor bad. In each of the other Republican-oriented groups, more say legal same-sex marriage is bad for society than say it is good.

Three-quarters say that America’s openness to people from all over the world is “essential to who we are as a nation,” compared with no more than a third of those in other Republican-oriented groups. They are also substantially more likely than those in other GOP groups to say that good diplomacy, rather than military strength, is the best way to ensure peace.

Ambivalent Right are about evenly divided over whether the Republican Party represents them well

Ambivalent Right don’t feel entirely at home in either party. While they lean toward the GOP on many issues, they tilt more moderate to liberal on some others, and their ambivalence is expressed in their assessments of the Republican Party itself.

Half of Ambivalent Right say that the Republican Party represents them either very (4%) or somewhat (46%) well, while a quarter say that the Democratic Party represents them well. Even taking into account the partisan composition of this group, Ambivalent Right who identify as or lean Republican are substantially less likely than Republicans in other GOP-oriented groups to say the party represents them well.

Ambivalent Right: Who they are
Ambivalent Right are younger and more racially and ethnically diverse than other Republican-oriented groups. They are also somewhat less religiously affiliated: 27% are religiously unaffiliated, compared with 20% of Populist Right, 18% of Committed Conservatives and just 6% of Faith and Flag Conservatives.

They are similar to the general population on both household income and education: 28% live in lower-income households (compared with 31% of all U.S. adults), 48% live in middle-income households (vs. 47% of all adults) and 19% live in upper-income households (vs. 17% of all adults). About a third (35%) have a college degree, roughly the same share as among the adult population overall (32%).

Ambivalent Right are less likely than other Republican-oriented groups to turn to Fox News for their political news. Half report getting news from Fox News over the course of a week, compared with at least six-in-ten or more in each of the other Republican-oriented groups.
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This is closest to me as well
 
Meanwhile, traitor and convicted felon Michael Flynn has called for official state religion, his interpretation of Christianity/Trump worship. But conservatives love the Constitution and small government.
 
crandc said:
Meanwhile, traitor and convicted felon Michael Flynn has called for official state religion, his interpretation of Christianity/Trump worship. But conservatives love the Constitution and small government.
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wrong thread….
 
I sent this quiz to my family. Nobody wanted to take it! LOL
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
Yeah but………………today’s polar divide in this country is a direct result of the Reagan era. And that is not even debatable (though I’m sure you’ll try).
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Can you expand on that? I was in gradeschool and jr high for most of the Reagan Days. ( just made ya feel old, didnt I? Lol)
 
Orion Bailey said:
Brotha! I was beginning to think i was Tom Hanks looking for Wilson. Lol.
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LOL. I usually agree with most of the stuff you post in the OT forums.... I'm just not the type that's willing to bang my head against the wall on everything. :beatinto:

I have better things to do with my time. :cool:
 
We are all special snowflakes, every one. I apologize for introducing this tyrannical, albeit voluntary, quiz. I now see that it's exactly the same as Nazis forcing Jews to wear a yellow star.

barfo
 
I'm a special snowflake who's apparently...

Outsider Left
… along with 10% of the public

Outsider Left are the youngest typology group. They hold liberal views on most issues, particularly on issues of racial equality and immigration.They are more skeptical of government performance than other Democratic-oriented groups, though far less so than those in GOP-oriented groups. While they aren’t particularly happy with the Democratic Party, they also have deeply negative views of the GOP. Though nearly half of Outsider Left describe their own political views as liberal, only about three-in-ten identify as Democrats; about half say they are independents who lean toward the Democratic Party.
 
This poll is deceiving i think it thought I'm hard on races because i said it doesn't really bother me if neighbors don't speak english. But i didn't vote the last option because id like to communicate with my neighbors. No option to learn a different language or anything.
Meh…

im a snowflake.
 
16 questions are not enough to gage someones political leanings.
 
julius said:
16 questions are not enough to gage someones political leanings.
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But more isn't necessarily better because then it's too hard to get people to sit still for the quiz.

barfo
 
barfo said:
But more isn't necessarily better because then it's too hard to get people to sit still for the quiz.

barfo
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sounds like a problem I had during sex ed in middle school
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
The question was: How much, if at all, would it bother you to regularly hear people speak a language other than English in public places in your community?

It's not that they don't speak English, it's that they choose to converse in another language with their friends/family.

If people aren't talking to me, I couldn't give a shit what language they speak. Unless it's a Karen, I don't understand how anyone would at all be bothered by it.
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good point. When better explained like that, i could care less as well.
 
crandc said:
My Spanish has improved from hearing neighbors' conversation.
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I took four years of Spanish in college. So, I can speak it somewhat well, and understand it well too.
 
Chris Craig said:
I took four years of Spanish in college. So, I can speak it somewhat well, and understand it well too.
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I had Spanish for a couple years in HS... Sophomore year some girls who liked to wear mini skirts to school sat across from me (desks configured in semicircle). I didn't learn a thing in that class... Can't even remember a single lesson.

*Edit* And who wears a mini skirt in Oregon in winter? They knew what they were doing...
 
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Phatguysrule said:
I had Spanish for a couple years in HS... Sophomore year some girls who liked to wear mini skirts to school sat across from me (desks configured in semicircle). I didn't learn a thing in that class... Can't even remember a single lesson.
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Hola, Senoritas!
 
I took two years of Spanish in HS where my Oline coach was the teacher. I earned much more of my B in both classes on the field than I did in the classroom. Now I'm living on the US/Mexico border and regretting not learning more! I can read it just fine and can understand most of what is being said in conversation but can't speak it well to save my life. I will say that the people here speak a mixture of both, using whatever word in either Spanish or English is easier and that throws me off quite a bit.
 
crandc said:
My Spanish has improved from hearing neighbors' conversation.
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Tyrant of Ants said:
Same here. But my excuse is I had to take two foreign languages (English and Spanish) at once. I still can't believe how the school thought it was a good idea to make me take a Spanish class when I was just trying to learn English as my second (really, third) language. Passed the Spanish class thanks to a very sweet girl in that class.
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Ive noticed with my toddler grandson its taking him a bit longer to speak as he's learning both Vietnamese and english at the same time. I guess this is not unusual.
 
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