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.

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    1 year ago

    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.