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BumRushDaShow

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14. That is assuming the Indies/Unaffiliated, who have become a greater and greater % of the voting public

Reply to MayReasonRule (Reply #13)

Fri Aug 22, 2025, 09:47 AM

Friday

go along with that.

The media continually frames it as Democrats leaving and becoming Independents/Unaffiliated whereas in reality, they are leaving both parties (for whatever reason - in some cases to impact primaries in their states) and becoming Independents/Unaffiliated.

You can tell by the minuscule turnout in states that have closed primaries. And those that have open primaries have slowly been converting to "Ranked Choice" or some kind of "Jungle Primary" type of system.

I am definitely not a Gallup fan (they fucked up during the 2012 election) but here were their stats - https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

Similarly Pew did theirs - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affiliation-fact-sheet-npors/

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