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Ozmose posted...

Here you go.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/3/AAMabeAADajt.png

That's actuially reinforcing the point. Note that the mean - the peak of each blob - is further right for the conservatives than the median. That means that while there are enough conservatives leaning left on a few issues to haul the median left (presumably on more social issues, since socially liberal conservatives aren't uncommon), a significant minority is leaning harder to the right than both the mean and the median lean left for the left.

That, and given the extent to which Trump's presidency has galvanized the extreme right (particularly in the sense of making them feel more comfortable expressing more extreme right-wing views), I expect that chart would look quite different with current data than with data from 2017. But that's mostly speculation.

Ozmose posted...

I won't deny the shift in congress. The chart I posted is for voters.

Voters vote for the government. Whatever the shifts in their personal philosophies, they're voting in politicians that lean harder to the right, which ultimnately makes their personal beliefs irrelevant because it's the actions of those politicians that have an effect on the nation. Well, that, or the right has successfully gerrymandered their way into favouring votes from more extreme righties, which is completely possible, but the point stands that Congress' leanings matter more than voters'.