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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Wulri@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I have been a registered Republican as long as I have been voting.

And have been voting straight Democrat for over a decade now.

I wonder if there are more like me?

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Curious, why do you remain registered as a Republican?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My state has open primaries and I vote in the Republican primary to fuck their shit up.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If your state has open primaries, you don't need to register Republican to vote in their primary though?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

No. That's the point of an open primary. You can vote in either party's primarily.

I'm in a pretty red district. My primary vote is more powerful when voting Republican.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I don't know.

Initially I thought I could "undermine" from within. I'm a 50 year old, white, vet, so I tick a lot of conservative boxes, and I imagined I could plant seeds of doubt with people that might assume to include me in certain groups.

But that never really happened, and both parties can hang for all I care. (At least 90% of the ones over 65.)

So now I just vote straight Dem for harm reduction and tell young folks they need to be active, vote, and take the roles away from us older folks cuz we can't be trusted to do what is obviously and objectively the right thing to do.

What is funny is I have been reading and listening to a lot of early US history and this has literally been the same story over and over again.

Is there a political system that works?

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

We haven’t tried this one yet. I’m willing to give it a go!

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[–] Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Not OP, but probably to sabotage the competition rather than force each party to run a competitive candidate.