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elleng

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1. *We're trying to find more ways to weigh in on the political conversation as the tempo of the campaign picks up.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2024, 04:01 AM

Mar 2024

This is our first try: a weekly roundup newsletter, offering thoughts on some of the bigger questions of the week and a few of our favorite links. There will also be an opportunity to answer occasional reader questions.

“Realignment” is the holy grail of American politics — the fantasy of every political consultant who wants to usher in a new era of Democratic or Republican dominance.

What’s a realignment? It’s a lasting shift in the partisan allegiance of the country, or at least a large demographic group.>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/upshot/trump-biden-political-realignment.html

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Are We in the Midst of a Political Realignment? [View all] Celerity Mar 2024 OP

*We're trying to find more ways to weigh in on the political conversation as the tempo of the campaign picks up. elleng Mar 2024 #1

yea, this is a bit of premature navel gazing in my opinion Layzeebeaver Mar 2024 #2

I guess we can either be premature or not "wait and see", let's mobilise. elleng Mar 2024 #3

From just the... Mike Nelson Mar 2024 #4

People are beginning to realize religions make lousy political parties Warpy Mar 2024 #5

I stopped reading when I got to this sentence: thucythucy Mar 2024 #6

Legit polls, when judged over a sufficient time, did NOT predict a Red Tsunami, that was a RW creation that some Celerity Mar 2024 #9

This is from the Pew Research Center: thucythucy Mar 2024 #10

I went back and found my Nov. 2022 comments Sympthsical Mar 2024 #11

At least in my state of New Mexico, Elessar Zappa Mar 2024 #7

IMO, a more likely realignment is what we have started to see already: Sky Jewels Mar 2024 #8

Probably limbicnuminousity Mar 2024 #12

I think Bitcofer was right and the 'swing voter' is disappearing. The era of hyper-polarization is here. pecosbob Mar 2024 #13