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Voters Are Leaving the Republican Party But Democrats Shouldn't Get Too Excited
PJ Media ^ | 02/03/2021 | Stacey Lennox

Posted on 02/03/2021 10:08:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind

According to a report from The Hill, at least 30,000 registered Republicans have changed their voter registration since the beginning of the year. Most outlets are optimistically positioning these changes as a rejection of the party following the Capitol riots and as an actual sea change. This point of view is simplistic given the number of things that have happened since the election. Additionally, only a small fraction of those leaving the GOP is signing up to join the Democrats. And given there were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020, these shifts do not even equate to a drop in the bucket.

According to Gallup’s monthly poll of political affiliation, those who identify as independents make up 45% of Americans. This finding is one of the highest results since the measurement started in 2004. It has only reached this level in 3% of surveys and has only been higher 3% of the time. This survey and many of the registration changes also took place before the inauguration and the slew of unpopular executive actions President Biden has taken since then.

For example, in Pennsylvania, through January 25, nearly 10,000 voters dropped out of the Republican Party. Of those, 3,476 registered as Democrats, leaving about 6,500 unaffiliated. These moves also came before Biden’s ban on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and just a few days after he rejoined the Paris accords. Pennsylvania has a large energy sector, which will impact voters’ views as the real-world impacts of Biden’s policies sink in.

The 6,500 who remain unaffiliated may mirror the 4,200 voters who left the Republican Party in Colorado who are now unaffiliated. While 4,600 left altogether between January 6-12, only 200 registered as Democrats a

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; exodus; republicans; voters
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1 posted on 02/03/2021 10:08:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Most outlets are optimistically positioning these changes as a rejection of the party following the Capitol riots...

More disinformation from the corrupt MSM. I;ll bet 99 percent are leaving because the Stupid Party has made themselves never Trumpers.

2 posted on 02/03/2021 10:14:43 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: SeekAndFind
No one dares say what most of us know to be true:

These people are mostly PRO-Trump, and are leaving the GOP because the ruling GOP are NOT. They are Never Trumpers and the rank and file are leaving them to stew in their milquetoast, reach-across-the-aisle-to-those-who-hate-you, go-along-to-get-along all talk no action RINOs.

3 posted on 02/03/2021 10:14:56 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m disgusted with Republicans. Tired of being lied to, and not served.

But I will never vote for a Democrat, as long as I live. After I die, I’ll vote Dem like all the other dead voters.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 10:15:24 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are not leaving the GOP because of the Reichstag riot, we are leaving because the GOP was in on the Big Steal and has been instrumental in stealing our country from us.


5 posted on 02/03/2021 10:15:27 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Still good news for the Dems because the GOP is a spineless, worthless party who throws their own under the bus at the first sign of trouble. So I can either vote for them or stay home and let Democrats win. It’s a lose/lose situation.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 10:17:17 AM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: SeekAndFind

Why does it matter who registers what in Pennsylvania? Republicans clobbered Dems in the lead up of registrations to the 2020 election.

The DemonRats just steal the election anyway.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 10:18:18 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL, they are trying to spin it as a reaction to the Capital
Building incursion. Good luck with that.

It would be interesting to know who those folk who flipped
to the Democrat Party voted for in November.

Folks are tired of being in a party with no fight, which more
often sides with our enemies’ core values than our own.

We have McConnell, Graham, and McCarthy defending a
Republican who voted for Trump’s impeachment of all things.

These folks couldn’t buy a clue with all the money in China.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 10:19:53 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just for fun, Trump should announce that he’s forming his own militia.


9 posted on 02/03/2021 10:27:40 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Obadiah

They are leaving McConnell’s Party.


10 posted on 02/03/2021 10:32:50 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: SeekAndFind
Duh !

It's because the average Democrat voter's rep in D.C. votes for almost every well intentioned feel good cisgendered hair brained policy they want, while the average Republican voter's rep only cares about their constituents every two, four, or six years, and treats them as knuckle dragging neanderthal lepers the rest of the time.

But then came Donald J. Trump ...

11 posted on 02/03/2021 10:33:05 AM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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To: DoughtyOne

>the Capital Building incursion

There are plenty of indications this should be called Pelosi’s Reichstag Riot.


12 posted on 02/03/2021 10:34:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I wouldn’t argue with that.


13 posted on 02/03/2021 10:39:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Small shifts like this happen after every election. President Trump won by about 10 million votes. Those who are leaving will not be missed because President Trump will draw in another 500,000 this year alone. The people who leave because of McConnell and some of the others want to burn down the Republican party - good for Soros but bad for America. Fix it from within - yes burn it all down? Where is the sense in that?


14 posted on 02/03/2021 10:41:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: SeekAndFind

We aren’t becoming Democrats. We have rejected the GOP because they are mostly Democrat leaning and that isn’t what we want.
However, let the jerks think they’re winning.


15 posted on 02/03/2021 10:47:45 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
DemoncRATs Try To Learn from Experts!


16 posted on 02/03/2021 11:05:12 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SeekAndFind

If Democrats keep on winning future elections through cheating by voter fraud and by the actions of activist judges, then it doesn’t really matter what the GOP/All Other Non-Democrats do.


17 posted on 02/03/2021 11:26:30 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: SeekAndFind

HAHA!! Wait’ll the Patriot Party is established. They’ll be leaving by the millions.


18 posted on 02/03/2021 11:32:19 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: romanesq

“Why does it matter who registers what in Pennsylvania? Republicans clobbered Dems in the lead up of registrations to the 2020 election.”

Democrats hold a 700,000 registration edge over Republicans in Pennsylvania.


19 posted on 02/03/2021 12:05:04 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: Alas Babylon!

The reason I re-registered as an Independent is because the REPUGLICRAT PARTY decided to take a great big hairy DUMP on my beliefs.

I voted for PRESIDENT TRUMP twice, for what I consider very good reasons.

PRESIDENT TRUMP is a proud American who wants to put America first; the REPUGLICRATS are people who chose to put themselves, their greed, and their pathetic party first.

Basically the REPUGLICRATS told me in so many words that they want their MORDIDA, the SOBORNO is more important to them than our great country!

Just as a matter of interest I am a WHITE guy, but the Mexican words for the “bite” and “bribe” are so much more descriptive of the REPUGLICRAT party than their American counterparts.


20 posted on 02/03/2021 1:12:57 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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