In reply to the No More Mister Nice Blog post MOSTLY SAY "HOORAY FOR OUR SIDE"
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I also suspect that a significant amount of the right's mirror image is hidden in the Pew poll's independent numbers. A good number of "republicans" prefer to see themselves as "independent" tea party supporters, conservatives, or libertarians.
It would be interesting to see how those independent numbers would break if Pew, et.al were to seperate the Nader / Green party independents from the Ron Paul / Tea party independents... Or even just clarify how their pool of independents self-identified when the earlier polls were taken.
("Independents" have no set political philosophy as a group, and I suspect that the balance of their in-group political leanings shifts depending on the party currently in power and the availability and viability of other ideological options. Including independents in a poll without identifying the leanings of the respondents is pretty meaningless.)
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Posted Monday, June 10, 2013, 10:22 PM
TRUMPISM IS STILL A DICK THING
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Exit polls tell us that Donald Trump won the male vote by 12 points, while
losing the female vote by 8. A survey of 18-29-year-old voters found that
the ge...
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