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(28,762 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)True for Repuglicans as well.
This why it is so important to have candidates that can appeal to moderates, liberals and progressives.
Too many Democratic candidates think they have to cater to conservatives in order to win, eg., Hillary Clinton.
But that dooms Democrats because the country is a lot more left leaning than they think.
Democratic candidates need to appeal to the more liberal base to win.
It is the opposite for Repuglicans since they have moved so far to the right -- they ought to be distancing themselves from their base to win a general election.
This has been true for quite sometime: the Democratic establishment (like DWS and Clinton) really have contempt for the base of the Democratic Party; Repuglican candidates are so enamored of their base that they let it destroy them.
Once again, a case for the Sandersization of the Democratic Party -- become a genuine, progressive party of the people and we can't lose.
marmar
(77,090 posts)...... precipitously as millennials become the largest voting bloc.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)it is pretty silly,choosing sides,just choose the best candidate for you.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...and seemed to be writing off the "great working class" and the poor, they surrendered a lot of support. They seldom mention the "poor" in any of their speeches.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Voters who consider themselves "working class" don't like being labelled "poor" or lumped in with them because Republicans have made the word poor synonymous with "welfare leeches". The modern GOP have become masters of pitting the serfs against one another.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Meanwhile, the share of self-identified Republicans is just 1 percentage point above its Gallup historical low of 25 percent in 2013, dating back to 1988.
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Results for the survey were compiled from 12,137 landline and cellphone interviews conducted throughout the course of 2015 and have a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.