WASHINGTON — In the weeks since the January riot at the Capitol, there has been a raft of stories about voters across the country leaving the Republican Party. Some of the numbers are eye-catching and suggest that the GOP may be shrinking before our eyes, but a closer look at the numbers over time shows that a larger change has been working its way through the party for some time.
In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 Republicans dropped the"R" from their registrations in January. In North Carolina, the figure was close to 8,000. In Arizona the figure was about 9,200 through late-January. And in one county in California, San Diego, more than 4,700 Republicans left the party last month.
Yet, in a broader sense, these numbers and others show party movement and they suggest a larger change may be underway within the GOP and the Democrats. Data from the NBC News poll show some notable changes over the last decade. It’s worth noting that a decline in college degrees within the GOP is going against the broader tide. It's happened as the number of college-educated Americans increased overall by 5 points. In fact, these numbers could be a warning sign for the Republicans. The party’s growth area in educational attainment, those with a high school diploma or less, is the one that is a shrinking percentage of the U.S. population.
Numbers like those might help explain some of the policy changes coming from the Republicans, particularly around the issue of trade.Democrats have long been a party where women outnumber men, but the difference has grown. In the last decade, self-identified Democrats have gone from 42 percent male and 58 percent female in 2010 to 39 percent male and 61 percent female in 2020. And self-identified Republicans, who were once evenly split between genders in 2010, have become more male.
MeetThePress Imagine that, GQP is mostly white uneducated men.
MeetThePress What is the purpose of this and why would it matter. Most Democrats are now young people who just graduated College, that the older Republican parent paid for them. They mAy have more education but it doesn’t equate to experience or common sense.
MeetThePress WTF does it matter if you have a college degree or not? Just cause you didn't go to an extra 4+ years of school doesn't mean you're beneath people who did!!! Going to or learning a skill or trade is just ask hard and valuable ImNotInDebit EarningGoodMoney
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MeetThePress Damn,I can't say for a 50 /50 split % but the choices being made by the Democratic party are woman choices in witch that's cool but a directive to those choice makings must include white persons poverty and their sustainability for life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
MeetThePress So the privileged with hight education vote Dem and the common blue collar folks vote Rep. what else is new. The richest people i know had no education beyond high school and I know many idiots with a Masters degree. This is no news.
MeetThePress Trend? Well we know they don’t last so BFD.not news.
MeetThePress Funny that the article states that the GOP has become a “blue-collar bastion” when the reality is, the GOP has no desire to help those who identify as blue-collar.
MeetThePress I often ask myself if CNBC's huge stock holdings in Big Pharma have anything to do with how much they push the vaccines. Hmm. Maybe we can get a report on the media's role in PR for them?
MeetThePress ICYMI: Less educated, mostly white men & the Karens who enjoy their toxic masculinity are the bulk of the ReTrumplican Party — while more educated, diverse women & the men who better appreciate them are the bulk of the Democratic Party. No wonder Dems are smarter & more informed
MeetThePress flush em all 🚮🚽🚮🚽🚮🚽 GQP GOPSeditiousTraitors
MeetThePress You are not news . You are a private media company that has a bottom line . You aren’t even talking about the mass amount of civil unrest around the world . You are coming to and end . Your profits are soon about to crumble
MeetThePress Gee !! Never would have expected those statistics🤣 Trump, his kids, and the insurrectionist!🤪🤬
MeetThePress this chart makes NO sense!!
MeetThePress What’s w/ this “registration”? I’ve never “registered” to be in a political party. I used to be a Democrat but I never registered to be one, I just voted that way. I don’t get this “she’s a registered Independent” or “he switched his registration from Democrat to Republican.”
MeetThePress Still a voting GOP former TheDemocrats poll worker and John F Kennedy staff member JFKLibrary and POTUS44 Sec_of_State candidate. And POTUS45 Dept. of Transportation Secretary Candidate.
MeetThePress I would like to see those figures in the graphics showing your ratings since that time as well. I think we would all find that entertaining.
MeetThePress I consider myself a moderate. I have voted Dem. I have voted Rep. I even voted for Trump and I will NEVER vote Republican again at this point.
MeetThePress Lets stop calling it MSM lets find a name that fits, I’ll start Chinese news network.
MeetThePress No wonder that the previous occupant proclaimed that he 'loved' the uneducated.
MeetThePress That’s not the reason. The reason is that we’re fed up with the GOP establishment. They don’t represent us anymore. Look at Liz Cheney...
MeetThePress So how many are going independent. Time for a new party and/ or Ranked voting!
MeetThePress So the 7 from democrat went to trumpland? Bye, and have fun.
MeetThePress party of elites that completely ignores workers and poor people and party of hogs that completely ignores workers and poor.
MeetThePress oh well
MeetThePress ”Only dumb, uneducated people register and vote for Republicans.” - NBC
MeetThePress The old GOP has been replaced with the GOPQ. I can’t take credit for this. Chris Cuomo coined it the other night on CNN.
MeetThePress Destroy the republicans
MeetThePress How can this party try to ignore the January 6 event at our Capitol? Simply, it happened while Trump was POTUS. Next, what did he do to try and stop the seize?
MeetThePress Trump killed the republican party. And the majority still at trumps nipple, what kind of nourishment are they getting? What hidden crimes are they party to.....
MeetThePress “I love the poorly educated.” -Donald Trump
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