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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

The 42% are democrats and 47% are republicans is the true surprise. That is a huge difference even though it might not seem like it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Well, I have been a registered Republican as long as I have been voting.

    And have been voting straight Democrat for over a decade now.

    I wonder if there are more like me?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Curious, why do you remain registered as a Republican?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My state has open primaries and I vote in the Republican primary to fuck their shit up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If your state has open primaries, you don't need to register Republican to vote in their primary though?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    No. That's the point of an open primary. You can vote in either party's primarily.

    I'm in a pretty red district. My primary vote is more powerful when voting Republican.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Why register Republican if you don't need to register for a party to vote in a primary? Open primary means you don't need to be registered with the party to vote in their primary. So why register Republican?

    Edit: Oh ok, I see that was someone else who made the initial comment. I never check usernames...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At this point I don't know.

    Initially I thought I could "undermine" from within. I'm a 50 year old, white, vet, so I tick a lot of conservative boxes, and I imagined I could plant seeds of doubt with people that might assume to include me in certain groups.

    But that never really happened, and both parties can hang for all I care. (At least 90% of the ones over 65.)

    So now I just vote straight Dem for harm reduction and tell young folks they need to be active, vote, and take the roles away from us older folks cuz we can't be trusted to do what is obviously and objectively the right thing to do.

    What is funny is I have been reading and listening to a lot of early US history and this has literally been the same story over and over again.

    Is there a political system that works?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I wonder how much that has to do with state rules on voting in primaries. Like, when I lived in MA I was registered independent because that would let me vote in any primary (but only one). My current state, I have to be affiliated with a specific party to vote.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So many Nazis.

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