Plus: Voters see both parties as out of touch, but for different reasons; Trump hits new low on pocketbook issues; Large majorities oppose ending ACA subsidies and SNAP, support taxing high earners
Since Trump descended his escalator in 2016 to start his "royal" presidency, his brand, style and agenda have become increasingly toxic to our democratic traditions. Why GOP leadership have made a compliant deal with this devil is increasingly hard to fathom.
Thankfully, the polling stats are starting to flash a RED alert for the continuing reign of faux King Donald. His agenda; "pay the rich - punish the poor and immigrants" has turned against the GOP. The Epstein vote will accelerate the "off ramp" for many conservative, independent voters and for traditional GOP voters. The tanking markets will seal hi tomb.
Cult voters who stick with Trump even if he "shoots someone on 5th Ave." have already crossed that line to live with his extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and his sadistic crackdown on immigrants.
We the Independent and Democratic Resistence need to keep pressure on Congress to compromise on subsidies for the ACA, protect SNAP, take back oversight of spending priorities, AND keep up the drumbeat of the deviant twinning of Trump and Epstein no matter how much evidence is redacted or withheld. Follow the "Quack like a duck" principle.
Loved the article this morning, GEM! Question: "Additionally, 42% say they are at least somewhat liberal, which compares to 33% among the whole population."
Can you publish your results for the total %age of Americans who identify as "liberal", "conservative", etc.? I'd like to see what data you find...
More and more, I wonder how to distinguish between moderate and left. I guess polls are letting subjects self-identify and thus determine those descriptives? I’m an older white woman who is probably moderate but would have voted for Mamdani. I tend to favor liberal/left politicians who are more inclusive, like him and AOC. But am put off by some of the regular folks in the liberal/left contingent, such as those who express hostility to voting and the “Democratic establishment” online, or those who do things like interrupt Kamala Harris’s book events. I guess some forms of oppositionality don’t impress me and push me back to moderate.
It's interesting that the things that distance you from identifying as left sound pretty stylistic. They slowed my move away from the so-called "center," too. I see this as fundamental to the Mamdani difference.
Yes, in the poll, it's self-placement. But the meaning of the label in practice is nebulous. Most of the "Dems need to moderate" people change deficients by the day. Utility of the whole question is questionable to me
Thanks for the belly laugh at that final chart of most importance to Trump: popularity!
He'll be seething anew when he finds out that Barack Obama is 15 points more popular than he is, and even Kamala Harris and Zohran Mamdani are more popular.
I guess that the question for Democrats is whether a shift to the left would shed as many or more voters from the center as it would attract voters from the left.
Indeed. I'm not sure I understand the claim in this article that moderating isn't a good strategy when it is independents changing their minds that is driving much of the D advantage here, at least if I understand the article. Left-leaning can be a perfectly good description of moderates.
I think the fact that Bill Kristol is out there calling to abolish DHS should be indicative enough of where the median voter actually wants the Democratic Party to go.
Too fucking late
Looks like the future of the Democratic Party is with left wing liberals.
Since Trump descended his escalator in 2016 to start his "royal" presidency, his brand, style and agenda have become increasingly toxic to our democratic traditions. Why GOP leadership have made a compliant deal with this devil is increasingly hard to fathom.
Thankfully, the polling stats are starting to flash a RED alert for the continuing reign of faux King Donald. His agenda; "pay the rich - punish the poor and immigrants" has turned against the GOP. The Epstein vote will accelerate the "off ramp" for many conservative, independent voters and for traditional GOP voters. The tanking markets will seal hi tomb.
Cult voters who stick with Trump even if he "shoots someone on 5th Ave." have already crossed that line to live with his extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and his sadistic crackdown on immigrants.
We the Independent and Democratic Resistence need to keep pressure on Congress to compromise on subsidies for the ACA, protect SNAP, take back oversight of spending priorities, AND keep up the drumbeat of the deviant twinning of Trump and Epstein no matter how much evidence is redacted or withheld. Follow the "Quack like a duck" principle.
Loved the article this morning, GEM! Question: "Additionally, 42% say they are at least somewhat liberal, which compares to 33% among the whole population."
Can you publish your results for the total %age of Americans who identify as "liberal", "conservative", etc.? I'd like to see what data you find...
Our poll is evenly split 33-34-33 liberal, moderate, and conservative by self-identification.
"What would your ideal political party argue for or believe in?" is such a fun open-ended question. Can't wait to see the analysis.
More and more, I wonder how to distinguish between moderate and left. I guess polls are letting subjects self-identify and thus determine those descriptives? I’m an older white woman who is probably moderate but would have voted for Mamdani. I tend to favor liberal/left politicians who are more inclusive, like him and AOC. But am put off by some of the regular folks in the liberal/left contingent, such as those who express hostility to voting and the “Democratic establishment” online, or those who do things like interrupt Kamala Harris’s book events. I guess some forms of oppositionality don’t impress me and push me back to moderate.
It's interesting that the things that distance you from identifying as left sound pretty stylistic. They slowed my move away from the so-called "center," too. I see this as fundamental to the Mamdani difference.
Yes, in the poll, it's self-placement. But the meaning of the label in practice is nebulous. Most of the "Dems need to moderate" people change deficients by the day. Utility of the whole question is questionable to me
Thanks for the belly laugh at that final chart of most importance to Trump: popularity!
He'll be seething anew when he finds out that Barack Obama is 15 points more popular than he is, and even Kamala Harris and Zohran Mamdani are more popular.
It's the exact kind of reality check he needs.
Is there any data on what % of registered or likely voters do not know that Republicans control Congress?
not in this poll, but that's a good idea!
I guess that the question for Democrats is whether a shift to the left would shed as many or more voters from the center as it would attract voters from the left.
Indeed. I'm not sure I understand the claim in this article that moderating isn't a good strategy when it is independents changing their minds that is driving much of the D advantage here, at least if I understand the article. Left-leaning can be a perfectly good description of moderates.
I think the fact that Bill Kristol is out there calling to abolish DHS should be indicative enough of where the median voter actually wants the Democratic Party to go.
There’s no one signifier for the median voter, especially when the medians are all over the place.