boutons_deux
09-20-2016, 06:00 PM
( Repugs terminally constipated, Dems less so. )
Overall, including leaners, partisan identification has changed very little since 2009 (http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/09/0_2.png).
However, this seemingly static picture belies an ongoing transformation in the body politic,
as older white voters increasingly identify as Republicans, (http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/2_9/)
but not so quickly that they outweigh the influx of younger, more Democratic voters.
Its still looking a lot like 1950 in the Republican Party.
Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, the United States population began diversifying racially at a faster pace. The latest estimates from the census show only about three-fifths of the nation is now non-Hispanic white.
The Democratic Party has changed too (http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/1-the-changing-composition-of-the-political-parties/1_1-6/), and now looks about the same as the nation as a whole (see pie charts B and D in the figure above).
The Republican Party not so much.
(This is mathematically possible because non-voters counted in the census are less white than the pool of registered voters interviewed by Pew.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/20/1571749/-Shifting-sands-of-party-support-sort-the-nation-Democrats-diversify-Republicans-stagnate?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29
http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/the-parties-on-the-eve-of-the-2016-election-two-coalitions-moving-further-apart/
Trash's loss will have no effect on the Repug party, that's journalistic melodrama.
Repug whores will still 100% pro-business / anti-citizen/clients/patient, 100% pro-1% / anti-99%.
Repugs have known for years that demographics have been working against them, so they got their whores on SCOTUS to gut the VRA, so the slave/red states could run wild with redistricting, gerrymandering, voter suppression.
Repugs know the only way they can fight the demographic trend is by cheating. And 1%/VRWC/BigCorp paying them to do it.
Overall, including leaners, partisan identification has changed very little since 2009 (http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/09/0_2.png).
However, this seemingly static picture belies an ongoing transformation in the body politic,
as older white voters increasingly identify as Republicans, (http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/2_9/)
but not so quickly that they outweigh the influx of younger, more Democratic voters.
Its still looking a lot like 1950 in the Republican Party.
Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, the United States population began diversifying racially at a faster pace. The latest estimates from the census show only about three-fifths of the nation is now non-Hispanic white.
The Democratic Party has changed too (http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/1-the-changing-composition-of-the-political-parties/1_1-6/), and now looks about the same as the nation as a whole (see pie charts B and D in the figure above).
The Republican Party not so much.
(This is mathematically possible because non-voters counted in the census are less white than the pool of registered voters interviewed by Pew.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/20/1571749/-Shifting-sands-of-party-support-sort-the-nation-Democrats-diversify-Republicans-stagnate?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29
http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/the-parties-on-the-eve-of-the-2016-election-two-coalitions-moving-further-apart/
Trash's loss will have no effect on the Repug party, that's journalistic melodrama.
Repug whores will still 100% pro-business / anti-citizen/clients/patient, 100% pro-1% / anti-99%.
Repugs have known for years that demographics have been working against them, so they got their whores on SCOTUS to gut the VRA, so the slave/red states could run wild with redistricting, gerrymandering, voter suppression.
Repugs know the only way they can fight the demographic trend is by cheating. And 1%/VRWC/BigCorp paying them to do it.