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Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left (very interesting left demographics
The Pew ^ | October 24, 2017 | None given

Posted on 07/14/2018 5:57:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration, America’s role in the world and the fundamental fairness of the U.S. economic system.

The Democratic coalition is largely united in staunch opposition to President Trump. Yet, while Trump’s election has triggered a wave of political activism within the party’s sizable liberal bloc, the liberals’ sky-high political energy is not nearly as evident among other segments in the Democratic base. And Democrats also are internally divided over U.S. global involvement, as well as some religious and social issues.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; 2018polls; democrats; oldnews; pew; polls; republicans
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These survey results were referenced in a New York Magazine article focusing on the Republican/conservative results that was posted recently.

I dug in and found the study to garner incredibly fascinating and more illuminating insights into the Democrat/liberal respondents. In short, about 40% of the Dems are white affluent "educated" liberals - the very stereotypical Republican! - who are largely detached from how all other Dems (and Republicans for that matter) think about government.

Further, there are large swaths of Dems that are ripe for "Red-pilling."

This is a LONG survey, so what follows is my attempt to boil down the survey. I apologize in advance for the length.

First, if you look into their methodology page a few things leap out, aside from the fact that this is all based on a few thousand people. Most notably, Solid Liberals are over-sampled while the Country First Conservatives are under-sampled. This is likely due to most liberals wanting everyone to know what they think because they're just so interesting while most conservatives hang up when a stranger asks them personal questions. Thus, treat the aggregate survey with caution.

Cutting to the chase...(emphasis added)

Divisions on the left

The four groups in the Democratic coalition differ on a number of issues: While they all strongly support the social safety net, the Democratic-leaning groups are divided on government regulation of business, and government performance more generally. And like the GOP coalition, they disagree on U.S. global involvement.

While there have long been racial, ethnic and income differences within the Democratic coalition, these gaps are especially striking today. Reflecting the changing demographic composition of the Democratic base, for the first time there are two majority-minority Democratic-leaning typology groups, along with two more affluent, mostly white groups.

Solid Liberals are the largest group in the Democratic coalition, and they make up close to half (48%) of politically engaged Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. Largely white, financially comfortable and highly educated (most are college graduates and nearly a third have postgraduate degrees), Solid Liberals overwhelmingly express liberal attitudes on virtually every issue.

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For the most part, Opportunity Democrats agree with Solid Liberals on major issues. But Opportunity Democrats are less affluent, less politically engaged and less liberal – both in their attitudes on issues and in how they describe themselves politically. One area of difference between Opportunity Democrats and Solid Liberals is on corporate profits: 40% of Opportunity Democrats say most corporations make a “fair and reasonable amount of profit,” compared with 16% of Solid Liberals. And Opportunity Democrats stand out in their belief that most people can get ahead if they are willing to work hard.

Disaffected Democrats have very positive feelings toward the Democratic Party and its leading figures. Their disaffection stems from their cynicism about politics, government and the way things are going in the country. This financially stressed, majority-minority group supports activist government and the social safety net, but most say government is “wasteful and inefficient.” A large majority of Disaffected Democrats say their side has been losing in politics, while fewer than half believe that voting gives them a say in how the government runs things.

A second majority-minority group, Devout and Diverse, faces even tougher financial hardships than Disaffected Democrats. Devout and Diverse also are the most politically mixed typology group (about a quarter lean Republican), as well as the least politically engaged. Like Disaffected Democrats, they are critical of government regulation of business. They also are the most religiously observant Democratic-leaning group, and the only one in which a majority (64%) says it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values.

I'll now post just a few question and response graphs that show how closely aligned many Dems are with Republican views, and it's largely the Solid Liberals (who probably inhabit the media and Deep State) who suck up all the oxygen.

It appears the Trump Administration is tapping into these areas of commonality, if you focus on the areas of overlap. To be sure, there are LOTS of areas of disagreement. But I truly believe there is a YUGE opportunity for Trump to build a long-lasting Deplorable coalition that could continue governing long enough to repair the damage of decades of neglect and abuse.

Thanks for listening.

1 posted on 07/14/2018 5:57:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

The first few sentences are laughable BS. Republicans divided and dems united...uh huh...right. Pew, a lib source...deeply biased. Let them project their unicorns and rainbows into November. The left can’t get out of their own way and do an unbiased poll.


2 posted on 07/14/2018 6:04:40 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Break in my country, you are illegal. Break into my house, makes not you a homeowner.)
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To: DoodleBob

It is true that the Democrat party platform is pretty much about what upperclass liberals want and excludes everybody else.


3 posted on 07/14/2018 6:05:52 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: DoodleBob

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WalkAway&src=tyah&lang=en


4 posted on 07/14/2018 6:13:29 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: DoodleBob

This is from nine months ago. A lot has changed.


5 posted on 07/14/2018 6:50:02 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: DoodleBob
Lots of categories, labels, and terms that are seldom used.

One thing the author didn't really explore was the difference between atheists and Christians and how that marks solid barriers on where you come down on the political spectrum. You cannot be a Christian and be pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, and pro-covetousness of other people's money and possessions.

6 posted on 07/14/2018 6:50:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: DoodleBob

Took the quiz. There were some questions where I was kinda in the middle but went ahead and took the conservative position.

My overall score, not surprisingly, Core Conservative.

All Core Conservatives should be generous monthly donors to Free Republic.


7 posted on 07/14/2018 6:52:35 PM PDT by upchuck (We've become a superficial nation obsessed with fluff. ~ tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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I took the survey and came up as a “Country First Conservative,” for whatever that’s worth.

But I question the way the Pew study sliced and diced the right side of the political spectrum.

Some of the internals look sketchy, to say the least. For example, only about 2/3 of Country First Conservatives are supposed to believe that Islam is inherently violent and supremacist.

I would respond that Islamic terror is the main reason I have hardened my attitudes toward immigration and American engagement worldwide. And I suspect many on the Right would agree with me.


8 posted on 07/14/2018 7:26:56 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: DoodleBob

BMFL

TMI

My brain hurts!

I’m going take two bricks and start bangin’ ‘em together.

Maybe two aspirin.


9 posted on 07/14/2018 8:19:52 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: lightman; Petrosius
Yes, if it was a light poll, I'd call it dated, too. But these types of beliefs and attitude should don't change too much over night. What MAY shift somewhat quickly is voting patterns. I could see sizable Devout and Diverse folks flipping for DJT if their paycheck grows.

I agree...there is a LOT in this thread. But sometimes you need meat and potatoes. Thank you.

10 posted on 07/14/2018 8:48:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Nothingburger

Bump. Especially your last paragraph. Me too.


11 posted on 07/14/2018 8:51:24 PM PDT by upchuck (We've become a superficial nation obsessed with fluff. ~ tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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To: upchuck

Yea, verily yea.

Megadittos.

My brain still hurts.


12 posted on 07/14/2018 8:54:04 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Pew is just a gang of prostitutes for their lefty billionaire donors.

Collecting accurate data these days is extremely difficult.

Add bias to the analysis and the result is a just a big word salad.

These are interesting times, and the dolts that call themselves social scientist are incapable of understanding such complexity.


13 posted on 07/15/2018 1:44:09 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: SkyPilot
You cannot be a Christian and be pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, and pro-covetousness of other people's money and possessions.

There are millions of crazy lefties who claim to be Christians.

Is your point they are not "really" Christians--fine--tell them that--lol.
14 posted on 07/15/2018 1:46:07 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Is your point they are not "really" Christians--fine--tell them that--lol.

If someone is pro-abortion, pro-sexual perversion, and covets other people's money and possessions, then I would say they are NOT Christians. They can deceieve themselves however they like.

God's Word is true, and the final authority.

Abortion: (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139:13-16)

Homosexuality: (Romans 1:26-28, 1 Timothy 1:8-11)

Coveting: (Exodus 20:17, 1 Timothy 6:10, Deuteronomy 5:21)

As for people who demand to label themselves as Christians, but they do not follow God's Word, don't care what Christ said, and don't live according to Spirt, they should read these chilling words from Christ Himself:

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."

Matthew 7:21

15 posted on 07/15/2018 4:25:20 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: DoodleBob

bookmark


16 posted on 07/15/2018 4:42:55 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: DoodleBob; DoodleDawg

Such an incredibly useful, informative post regarding opportunities to exploit rifts and weakness among the left. I was flabbergasted thinking it was from Doodledawg at first, now I understand. That’s because it’s not.


17 posted on 07/15/2018 4:47:17 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I show up as a “Market Skeptic Republican” by the way, for what that’s worth.


18 posted on 07/15/2018 4:58:39 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
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19 posted on 07/15/2018 5:01:36 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

At least we can all take comfort in the fact that any incredibly useful, informative posts could never be mistaken for one of your’s.


20 posted on 07/15/2018 5:15:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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