More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

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More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-1-mi...040817454.html


STEVE PEOPLES and AARON KESSLER


Sun, June 26, 2022 at 11:08 PM·7 min read


WASHINGTON (AP) — A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.


More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.


But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump's Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.


Ben Smith, who lives in suburban Larimer County, Colorado, north of Denver, said he reluctantly registered as a Republican earlier in the year after becoming increasingly concerned about the Democrats' support in some localities for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the party's inability to quell violent crime and its frequent focus on racial justice.


“It’s more so a rejection of the left than embracing the right,” said Smith, a 37-year-old professional counselor whose transition away from the Democratic Party began five or six years ago when he registered as a libertarian.


The AP examined nearly 1.7 million voters who had likely switched affiliations across 42 states for which there is data over the last 12 months, according to L2, a political data firm. L2 uses a combination of state voter records and statistical modeling to determine party affiliation, meaning that the switchers include both those who have formally changed their registration and those who L2 estimates have shifted toward the GOP.


While party switching is not uncommon, the data shows a definite reversal from the period while Trump was in office, when Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of party switchers nationwide.


But over the last year, roughly two-thirds of the 1.7 million voters who changed their party affiliation shifted to the Republican Party. In all, more than 1 million people became Republicans compared to about 630,000 who became Democrats.


The broad migration of more than 1 million voters, a small portion of the overall U.S. electorate, does not ensure widespread Republican success in the November midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress and dozens of governorships. Democrats are hoping the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overrule Roe v. Wade will energize supporters, particularly in the suburbs, ahead of the midterms.


Still, the details about party switchers present a dire warning for Democrats who were already concerned about the macro effects shaping the political landscape this fall.


Roughly four months before Election Day, Democrats have no clear strategy to address Biden’s weak popularity and voters’ overwhelming fear that the country is headed in the wrong direction with their party in charge. And while Republicans have offered few policy solutions of their own, the GOP has been working effectively to capitalize on the Democrats' shortcomings.


Republicans benefited last year as suburban parents grew increasingly frustrated by prolonged pandemic-related schools closures. And as inflation intensified more recently, the Republican National Committee has been hosting voter registration events at gas stations in suburban areas across swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania to link the Biden administration to record-high gas prices. The GOP has also linked the Democratic president to an ongoing baby formula shortage.


“Biden and Democrats are woefully out of touch with the American people, and that’s why voters are flocking to the Republican Party in droves," RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel told the AP. She predicted that “American suburbs will trend red for cycles to come” because of “Biden’s gas hike, the open border crisis, baby formula shortage and rising crime.”


The Democratic National Committee declined to comment when asked about the recent surge in voters switching to the GOP.


And while Republican officials are quick to take credit for the shift, the phenomenon gained momentum shortly after Trump left the White House. Still, the specific reason or reasons for the shift remain unclear.


At least some of the newly registered Republicans are actually Democrats who crossed over to vote against Trump-backed candidates in GOP primaries. Such voters are likely to vote Democratic again this November.


But the scope and breadth of the party switching suggests something much bigger at play.


Over the last year, nearly every state — even those without high-profile Republican primaries — moved in the same direction as voters by the thousand became Republicans. Only Virginia, which held off-year elections in 2021, saw Democrats notably trending up over the last year. But even there, Democrats were wiped out in last fall's statewide elections.


In Iowa, Democrats used to hold the advantage in party changers by a 2-to-1 margin. That’s flipped over the last year, with Republicans ahead by a similar amount. The same dramatic shift is playing out in Ohio.


In Florida, Republicans captured 58 percent of party switchers during those last years of the Trump era. Now, over the last year, they command 70 percent. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans went from 58 to 63 percent of party changers.


The current advantage for Republicans among party changers is playing out with particular ferocity in the nation's suburbs.


The AP found that the Republican advantage was larger in suburban “fringe” counties, based on classifications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to smaller towns and counties. Republicans boosted their share of party changers in 168 of 235 suburban counties AP examined — 72 percent — over the last year, compared with the last years of the Trump era.


These included suburban counties across Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Washington state.


Republicans also gained ground in further-out suburban counties, which the CDC lumps in with medium-size cities and calls “medium metro” — more than 62 percent of such counties, 164 in all, saw Republican growth. They range from the suburban counties north of Denver, like Larimer, to Los Angeles-area ones like Ventura and Santa Barbara in California.


The Republican advantage was nearly universal, but it was stronger in some places than others.


For example, in Lorain County, Ohio, just outside Cleveland, nearly every party switcher over the last year has gone Republican. That's even as Democrats captured three-quarters of those changing parties in the same county during end of the Trump era.


Some conservative leaders worry that the GOP's suburban gains will be limited if Republicans don't do a better job explaining to suburban voters what they stand for — instead of what they stand against.


Emily Seidel, who leads the Koch-backed grassroots organization Americans for Prosperity, said her network is seeing first-hand that suburban voters are distancing themselves from Democrats who represent "extreme policy positions.”


“But that doesn’t mean that they’re ready to vote against those lawmakers either. Frankly, they’re skeptical of both options that they have,” Seidel said. “The lesson here: Candidates have to make their case, they have to give voters something to be for, not just something to be against.”


Back in Larimer County, Colorado, 39-year-old homemaker Jessica Kroells says she can no longer vote for Democrats, despite being a reliable Democratic voter up until 2016.


There was not a single “aha moment” that convinced her to switch, but by 2020, she said the Democratic Party had “left me behind.”


“The party itself is no longer Democrat, it's progressive socialism,” she said, specifically condemning Biden's plan to eliminate billions of dollars in student debt.
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Peoples reported from New York.


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The republican candidate whoever it is (Trump, DeSantis) will not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn and will lose the electoral college.

So, the GOP got 1 million to switch over? Didn't Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes?

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The republican candidate whoever it is (Trump, DeSantis) will not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn and will lose the electoral college.

So, the GOP got 1 million to switch over? Didn't Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes?

BAAHHHAAAAAa Originally Posted by adav8s28

how many of those voters now regret voting for Biden? you also know that 1 in 6 Biden voters wouldn't have voted for him if the press hadn't colluded with big tech to suppress "fake" news about Biden, you know the news we all know wasn't fake after all?


https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-bi...r-biden-story/


How Dem officials, the media and Big Tech worked in concert to bury the Hunter Biden story


https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/24...ssed-by-media/


Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media


Biden got "81 Million" votes. how many votes would that be minus 1 in 6?

want to bet that's a LOT MORE than 7 million???


that's about 17 percent or of "81 Million" that's . wait for it ..


13.77 MILLION


BAAHHHAAHHHAAAAAAAAA


who'd be president now?
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The republican candidate whoever it is (Trump, DeSantis) will not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn and will lose the electoral college.

So, the GOP got 1 million to switch over? Didn't Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes?

BAAHHHAAAAAa Originally Posted by adav8s28

here's another gem for you to read



Hunter Laptop Story Confirms: Rein in Big Tech or Cease To Be a Free People | Opinion

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-lapt...pinion-1694011


On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their "Pearl Harbor attack" against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime's favored candidate, Joe Biden.

In an October move that would presage the collapse of the "public"-"private" distinction during the Biden presidency—as seen in press secretary Jen Psaki's open bragging last summer of collusion with Mark Zuckerberg to censor COVID "misinformation," and Eric Schmidt's recently revealed role helping shape administration science policy—Big Tech oligarchs dropped the hammer on the New York Post, a high-circulation newspaper, for its reporting on Hunter Biden's now-infamous "laptop from hell." The laptop's files demonstrated the notoriously troubled Hunter's venality, abuses of power and general sketchiness of his foreign dealings. He and some of his cronies remain under federal investigation for possible tax and money laundering violations.


In response to the Post's reportage, Twitter locked the paper out of its own account for over two weeks. Both Facebook and Twitter, moreover, heavily limited or outright-blocked disseminating the Post's URL for the laptop story. Crucially, the entirety of this sordid affair transpired less than a month away from a momentous Election Day. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) correctly demanded that the Federal Election Commission investigate whether Facebook and Twitter illegally issued in-kind contributions to the Biden campaign; he was rebuffed.


There are myriad problems with this picture. Most notable, perhaps, was the undoubted nature of the laptop's authenticity; no one, not even anyone in the Biden clan, denied at the time that Hunter's computer was genuine. One might normally deem such a detail important. But the Big Tech powers, uninterested in something as mundane as "truth," immediately grasped the greater imperative—to discredit the story in, and even to memory-hole it from, the collective public conscience.



The entire saga was eye-opening. Purportedly "private" companies worked hand in hand with their favored presidential candidate, evincing the lie of the "public"-"private" distinction and exposing the sprawling, pan-institutional nature of America's Ruling Class. The Ruling Class' ends sought were clear: Elect Joe Biden to be president of the United States. The means were then retrofitted after the ends were established.

A photo taken on October 21, 2020 shows the logo of the the American online social media and social networking service, Facebook and Twitter on a computer screen in Lille. DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images

Big Tech knew its role, and it executed its role flawlessly. Never mind that, if such shenanigans were to recur in 2024, with Biden as sitting president, such collusion would run afoul of the Supreme Court's 1973 admonition in Norwood v. Harrison that the government "may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish."


Over the past few weeks, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, America's two leading amplifiers of homogenous Ruling Class thought, corroborated and acknowledged the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop. "A day late and a dollar short" doesn't quite cut it here; "a year and a half late and trillions of dollars (in national indebtedness) short" is more like it. Given the exceedingly close nature of the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech's protection of the Biden family likely cost Trump a second term. (Which also means Big Tech cost Ukraine a Russian invasion; no sane person thinks Vladimir Putin would have invaded under Trump's watch.)



Uh, can we "deplorables" get a redo?


A look back at L'Affaire Hunter, with the clarity of both hindsight and the Times' and Washington Post's recent self-serving admissions, ought to provide a clarion wake-up call. There are few more pressing imperatives in American political life in the year 2022 than to rein in the Big Tech oligarchs and to reclaim "We the People"-rooted democracy from Silicon Valley technocracy. The Big Tech debate is often aired in the rhetoric and phraseology of "censorship" and "speech," but the better way to view the debate is through the lens of sovereignty and republican self-governance. When it comes to the Big Tech wars, the most fundamental question is a version of "who decides?": Who, that is, will watch the watchmen?


The collapse of the "public"-"private" distinction, at least in the context of the Big Tech robber barons, resolves the question. We the People must decide; We the People must watch the watchmen. The rules by which the 21st-century public square operates cannot be written in private by shadowy Birkenstock-wearing computer science Ph.D. dweebs. The underlying issues here are far too fundamental to our republic and our way of life. We must write the rules; we must reclaim our sovereignty from the woke titans of industry champing at the bit to impose an American social credit system.


If Big Tech can sway an election and ban a president of the United States, there is nothing it cannot do. All policy options must remain on the table to put Big Tech in its place once and for all.


Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, host of "The Josh Hammer Show," a syndicated columnist and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. Twitter: @josh_hammer.
Yssup Rider's Avatar
Only one poll matters, my fine fluffy friend.

And you just hijacked your own thread.

Better not let TKW hear about it.
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Only one poll matters, my fine fluffy friend.

And you just hijacked your own thread.

Better not let TKW hear about it. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

if you say so
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how many of those voters now regret voting for Biden? you also know that 1 in 6 Biden voters wouldn't have voted for him if the press hadn't colluded with big tech to suppress "fake" news about Biden, you know the news we all know wasn't fake after all?


https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-bi...r-biden-story/


How Dem officials, the media and Big Tech worked in concert to bury the Hunter Biden story


https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/24...ssed-by-media/


Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media


Biden got "81 Million" votes. how many votes would that be minus 1 in 6?

want to bet that's a LOT MORE than 7 million???


that's about 17 percent or of "81 Million" that's . wait for it ..


13.77 MILLION


BAAHHHAAHHHAAAAAAAAA


who'd be president now? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
If Trump does not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn, Biden will be president again. Biden can lose the popular vote and still win the electoral college.

I hear in Georgia, Hershel Walker and the Rev are tied in the polls. Shouldn't football legend Walker who is backed by Trump be ahead of the incumbent? Trump may not even win Georgia.
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If Trump does not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn, Biden will be president again. Biden can lose the popular vote and still win the electoral college.

I hear in Georgia, Hershel Walker and the Rev are tied in the polls. Shouldn't football legend Walker who is backed by Trump be ahead of the incumbent? Trump may not even win Georgia. Originally Posted by adav8s28

lose the poplar vote (which doesn't mean shit) but win the electoral college? who did that?

Trump

here's what happened the next day after the cunt sobered up and stopped smashing HDTV's ..


oh wait this happened first ..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN64v4j7Fcs


then this (the cunt sobered up)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKt0ME5fSQ


son ... you need to stop embarrassing yerself ... it's unmanly.


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This is more about mid terms than 2024 presidential. Just because .6% of the voters changed doesn't mean they will vote for Trump on the ticket, if he is on it. 1 million is somewhat offset by many new younger voters that tend to vote democrat.
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And of course, the young democrat base - more than 50% female - won’t be energized, will it?
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I didn’t leave the Republican Party. They left me. Voting blue until the Republicans get a moral compass.
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This didn't age well

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The republican candidate whoever it is (Trump, DeSantis) will not flip Mich, Wisc and Penn and will lose the electoral college.

So, the GOP got 1 million to switch over? Didn't Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes?

BAAHHHAAAAAa Originally Posted by adav8s28
Yeah but that's before voters knew what a bust Biden would be. Democrats will loose in 2024 it doesn't matter who the Republican Candidate is. Conventional Democrats won't vote for Biden again or any Democrat for that matter.
dimocrats see themselves as some sort of elite

who know better than the poor slobs they are willing to sacrifice in order to provide a more serene life for themselves

with a mindset of "we must do evil now, in order to do good later"

they rationalize everything

even their thoughts of some sort of "good later" is a special selective good for a special select few

but more and more americans are waking up to these awful people
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"More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems"

Uhmmm, I live in Texas. We get a tonne of peoples from Kommiefornia and New York. I do not expect they are sending their best at all times. Sure, many are fleeing the rot and tyranny of those chite-holes, but many are just flocking to where the jobs are and are bringing their baggage with them.

Let's just say, there may be some good with the bad.