This stood out to me:

The poll comes also as Republicans hold a slight partisan edge over Democrats, which shows that 45% of Americans are Republican or lean-Republican, while 42% are Democrat or lean-Democratic, per Gallup.

That’s a change from previous years, including in 2022, when an equal number of Americans said they consider themself a Republican or a Democrat.

Democrats held a partisan edge over Republicans in 2020, 2018 and 2016, per the average of Gallup party affiliation polls from those years.

  • KoofNoof@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a Republican… we don’t like DeSantis because he’s a career politician. Republicans don’t like career politicians.

    (Yes, that means we don’t like most republicans in office)

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      1 year ago

      Please don’t act like your party or its voters have any logical consistency. We’ve been paying attention.

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      I figured that would take a backseat to your love of attacking civil rights, harming minorities, and installing a Christian nationalist state. Trump did have some wins in that department, but DeSantis would certainly be more affective in that regards.

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      As a former Republican, I call bullshit. The longest serving members of the Senate are Republicans, and one is your party’s leader in the Senate. You guys love constantly re-electing your fossils just as much as the Dems do.

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        1 year ago

        Just because people are voting for them doesn’t necessarily mean they want them there. It just means they’d rather have a Republican there than a Democrat.

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          1 year ago

          The fossils are winning the primaries too. They don’t get a chance to run against Dems if you choose non-career Republicans over them in the primaries. You generally don’t just like the dems dont.