Message from @Sophie
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Affiliation is not registration
That's one hell of mental gymnastics
It’s basic definition...
You need to take a look at the crosstabs
I'm not interested in semantics, Republicans have more people affiliating with their party than democrats.
It’s not semantics
Dems have a lead in registration. That, combined with the dismal performance trump has among independents
Having a lead in registration is useless if you have more people affiliating as Reps
lol
Should not cause you to re-examine the prior
Independents who vote dem but are not “affiliated” (such as Bernie) are not “useless”
You seriously need to learn to read a poll before you start diving into crosstabs
Amateur move- this is basic stuff
If you're affiliated with a party, you'll be voting for them.
It's a rarity someone affiliates with Reps and votes dem.
Especially with a President with the highest GOP approval ever.
(His approval with independents recently is 42%, one of his bests).
Dems don’t need a single republican affiliated vote
If reps take all reps, Dems take all Dems, and a majority of independents are voting dem, Dems have a lead
Your claim was different, "trump has lost his base"
So you're shifting goalposts.
Yes, he has
Hence why there are more Reps than dems and of those 94% support Trump
Trump won a lot of independents in 2016
He’s lost them
He has the same amount of support from indep's as he did in January
2017
That is a big problem for him
Just inaccurate statement
> 2017 Jan 20-29 89 42 13
Sigh approval ratings are not electoral performance
2020 Jan 16-29 94 42 7
It’s like talking to a child
42 and 42
Read 538
Learn how to read a poll
Learn how these questions are asked
Ok let me go over this again, 42% of independents approve of Trump. This was the same in January 2017.