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The only Question Republicans moved to the right 25 years on, was about Enviro Laws hurting the economy, and only then by a few percentage points.
I was hanging out in my neighbors garage talking with him and another neighbor on Sunday. There were beers and football involved, normal American stuff. Politics came up (I didn’t start it), and since we were on the subject and I know one of them is a pretty dedicated Democrat, I asked which candidate was his favorite out of the bunch. He said he didn’t like the front runners, would probably vote libertarian as a protest vote if one of them became the nominee, and was seriously reconsidering his status as a Democrat. He doesn’t like Trump, but really doesn’t like the anti-family stance of the party.
Thought that was an interesting anecdote.
He said he didn’t like the front runners, would probably vote libertarian as a protest vote if one of them became the nominee, and was seriously reconsidering his status as a Democrat. He doesn’t like Trump, but really doesn’t like the anti-family stance of the party.
This is simply incorrect, according to long term polling on 10 political questions that Pew Research Center has been doing since 1994.
The only Question Republicans moved to the right 25 years on, was about Enviro Laws hurting the economy, and only then by a few percentage points.
But Democrats, on everything from Defence to Racial Discrimination to Poverty to Immigration, moved to the left by double digit percentages.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/05/takeaways-on-americans-growing-partisan-divide-over-political-values/