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Jakyl25 posted...

Are conservatives really half the people?

fair point. so 2018 numbers that used just three terms:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/245813/leans-conservative-liberals-keep-recent-gains.aspx
35%, tied with moderate as the plurality. the flaw here obviously comes in how it's just three tiers, it doesn't split the right up into different subsections (e.g., conservative, far right, alt right) or the left (e.g., liberal, progressive, communists). if you did you'd probably get a lot more in the middle, like the polarization charts have shown, though that's not particularly well defined either (e.g., center-right, center-left). if you assume conservative will exist as the main group on the right it's still the majority of that section so... maybe more like a third after all?

but i'm not sure "half" or "third" really means much since the difference is still the dismissal of some 70-80 million people.

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