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In reply to the discussion: Tell me I'm wrong about the messages Virginia voters sent [View all]Sympthsical
(9,041 posts)I read it and did a paper on it for my social psychology class.
I think everyone should have to read it. So many people on our side really don't have any idea what average Republican voters are like. They're painted as caricatures with extreme examples and anecdotal stories. And they have the same problem with us. To them, we're all a bunch of lunatic wokesters coming for their kids. The politicians are going to ride that into 2022.
I need to find my copy of it. That study in it that Klein discusses is so revealing. It's the one where they asked partisans what the Republican and Democratic parties are like. Republicans thought things like we're 30% LGBT people, and Democrats thought Republicans were way, way older than they actually are. All this data showing, the more partisan someone is, the less they actually know about the other party's voters.
I think about that study all the time when I read here.