I AM AN AUSTRALIAN. I WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF AN AMERICAN COULD EXPLAIN A (US) POLITICAL QUERY I HAVE

[robosmith]

33 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

Simple tribal human nature. If you are someone who is politically liberal or identifies a Democrat, you will vote for Biden not because he is so great. Rather you vote Biden because he is the choice with the D next to this name. Straight ticket voting... very tribal but also makes the decision easier. less research, less deliberation. 

"Compare to the alternative, not to the Almighty."

MAGA CULT will not consider the alternative, because they are a CULT who believes ONLY der leader. AKA Almighty to THEM.

[CdnFox]

40 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

Simple tribal human nature. If you are someone who is politically liberal or identifies a Democrat, you will vote for Biden not because he is so great. Rather you vote Biden because he is the choice with the D next to this name. Straight ticket voting... very tribal but also makes the decision easier. less research, less deliberation. 

True, and of course the same is true for republicans. A significant hunk of voters on both sides of the fence have become so tribal that they just automatically vote for their party. The democrats could put a raven skunk in as their candidate and the democrat voters would vote for it. Of course, democrat voters argue that that's exactly what the republicans have already done  But republicans will vote for the republican candidate

This is interesting because that leaves the so-called mushy middle who are not really aligned and actually spend some time thinking about this one way or another. Cuz I understand it in most elections they represent about 20% of the people.

So really, about 20% of the people actually are the only ones who make a decision about who will run the country.

[impartialobserver]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

True, and of course the same is true for republicans. A significant hunk of voters on both sides of the fence have become so tribal that they just automatically vote for their party. The democrats could put a raven skunk in as their candidate and the democrat voters would vote for it. Of course, democrat voters argue that that's exactly what the republicans have already done  But republicans will vote for the republican candidate

This is interesting because that leaves the so-called mushy middle who are not really aligned and actually spend some time thinking about this one way or another. Cuz I understand it in most elections they represent about 20% of the people.

So really, about 20% of the people actually are the only ones who make a decision about who will run the country.

The so-called Independents or those who do not register as anything are the mushy people. A lot of research is done to figure out why they do not identify/register as an R or D and then how to appeal to them. as for myself.. life is simply not that black and white where one way is always the best way. Besides, neither party even makes an attempt to achieve my number one issue.. govt spending. 

[Hodad]

1 hour ago, impartialobserver said:

 Besides, neither party even makes an attempt to achieve my number one issue.. govt spending. 

Oh, I don't know about that. Seems like they both work pretty hard to achieve government spending.😜

Given that similarity, I'm significantly persuaded by what they want to spend on.