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    What % of total voters is a “registered republican”?

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        Why is this third considered to be representative of the “moderate republican”?

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          Look, I just got my coffee, it’s four am, and you are asking me to effectively explain the previous 40 years of American politics to you.

          I want to trust that you are asking in good faith, and that you deserve an explanation here, but I’m burnt out in the equivocation right now. So just give me a small signal that my time isn’t wasted here and I can explain this to you .

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            I’m sorry. To me it seemed like something the more politically involved voter would do.

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              I don’t think that’s the response they were after.

              You could have tried something like:

              I can appreciate you’re tired and I think we’re all a little exhausted after this election cycle. I am definitely interested in learning your perspective on this and opening myself up to other viewpoints.

              See I acknowledged OPs comment and tried to explain my motivations for the question. You, on the other hand, you called them out for rightfully wanting to value their time.

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                That’s alright. Simply trying to understand the relationship between that graph, and the conclusion the author took from that.

                But I see now that this might not be the appropriate crowd to help me understand.

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                  Sure, everyone is downvoting you but you can’t be the constant here and it must be this entire community.

                  Perhaps someone more eloquent than me can come along and explain why your approach fell on deaf ears.

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                    Sure, everyone is downvoting you but you can’t be the constant here and it must be this entire community.

                    Oh yes surely! Sorry if it came out that way. I do know that my particularities can come out insensitive.

                    Usually, communities on lemmy are quite more patient with me. That’s what I meant to say.

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      There’s no way to know exactly. Some states don’t disclose the voter registration statistics. North Dakota doesn’t even require party registration to vote.

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            Or not registered with any party and are little “I” independent. Some states have Independent candidates or parties. I wrote a “ySK” about it early this year around primary time and was accused of misinformation by people who don’t understand different states have different party registrations and laws. I wrote the post as someone smart I knew thought they had to register as an Independent party voter to “not be a Republican or Democrat”.

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          You’re not required to vote in alignment with your registration. It simply allows you to vote in the primary for your party.

          I switch my registration to Republican when there’s a Democratic incumbent so I can vote in the primary.

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            You have to register as x or y to be allowed to vote though?? Like I knew all the other fucked up parts of the whole US system, but this just fundamentally breaks the secret ballot. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have to align your actual vote.

            It’s like y’all saw us (Australia) doing the secret vote thing and thought “how could we fuck up implementing that?”…