You picked one person and resolved that she represents the majority of the Left most part of the party. Why leave out Bernie and Warren? Won't they be attending the convention, virtually, of course?
I actually love this. Next time someone here says, "I am Republican, and actually voted for Kasich in the primary" as an excuse for their continued Trump support, I am going to laugh my ass off.
I don't think that is something specific to the GOP or DNC though...
I'm not totally sure how one would quantify that. I would have to go find it, but I thought like a year ago there was some study showing that democrats tended to trust the government and mainstream media more and republicans tended to trust other things more. I don't know if that really quantifies it, but I guess it could be an aspect of that. I think everyone (myself included) is somewhat gullible, or given to trust / like people based on perception rather than evidence and proof that someone is trustworthy.
I don't know how much any of this plays into it, but I think the statistics are interesting.
Bernie and Trump actually had quite a bit in common in 2016 when it came to some of the populist stuff.
I think it (and this might be confirmation bias as I havent studied it up that much), is evidence that while people may have different ideas on how to get government to a certain place. People generally agree on and want similar thing’s. I think there is a lot of money and such involved in making people think they’re isolated from others, or that other people are there enemies.
I listen to a lot of political crap and I honestly have no idea what the general election is gonna look like... The right seems to think they're gonna blow out the democrats and vice versa. The only thing that the political commentators seem to agree on is the country is in a not so great place...
I had read where independants have grown at a faster rate than gems & repub's, and even libertarians are growing at a faster rate than all parties. Currently, Ind. represent 29.9% Republicans 28.87% & Dems 39% of registered voters. If republicans & democrats lean to far right or left and there are factions within the parties it could prove to be interesting to see what happens in the future.
To be fair and I always say I'm an independent though the political tests I've taken always say I'm probably closest aligned with libertarians, I think many people say they're "independent" and just about always end up voting for the same party.
agree...I think a great % of independents are partisan for sure, but as the 2 major get to extreme, that could change some.
Perhaps a qualitative analysis would be more appropriate for you. This would include a much more general quantitative analysis. e.g. Which party do you think relies more on science and expertise. You don't need exact figures.
Even with quantitative analysis weights are usually put in based on human bias. I don't know if anyone has actually done quantitative analysis on who is more likely to be gullible (for lack of a better word). I also don't know how I'd weight the notion of who "relies more on science and experts", would that be considered a good thing or a bad thing in this analysis. On one hand, you have better transmission of data, because there is a trust there that said scientist or expert is trustworthy, and you can rely on them to tell the truth, which is definitely a good thing or at least can be if the information gave is good. On the other hand, if someone doesn't rely on the experts that could mean that they're going to seek out answers for themselves, and if the data given is "bad" they will not fall trap to it as easily. Which one is more gullible? I don't know.
