Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
140 000 voters leaving the GOP is a rounding error out of 75 million votes cast last November. Party registration always jumps around a lot. I would still bet that the next election comes down to tens of thousands of votes either way in a few battleground states like the last two have which means the current GOP gleichschaltung programme detailed in that autopsy report is even more horrific. Here's another part of it:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...uston-n1263624



Immigration:


https://twitter.com/m_clem/status/1382439055594557442



Infrastructure:


https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...04362400190469



Interestingly Biden's very popular infrastructure bill becomes even more popular when voters hear the money to pay for it will come from increased corporate taxes. Here's the GOP counter offer such as it is:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...s-gas-tax.html

The party of the working classes.



And if you thought the Nazi reference above was unfair then you have to deal with the fact that the GOP is currently normalising white supremacy and making it acceptable to Americans. This is not promising for America's future at all:

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1380309798957285376

If you say it is a rounding error, ok. The way I read the article wasn't so much about the party losing voters, it was about why there was a surge in voters changin over a short period.

People leave parties for various reasons but this was an instance of raising the question- how many left as a response to January 6th.

The biggest spikes in Republicans leaving the party came in the days after Jan. 6, especially in California, where there were 1,020 Republican changes on Jan. 5 — and then 3,243 on Jan. 7. In Arizona, there were 233 Republican changes in the first five days of January, and 3,317 in the next week.


I would also agree the next election will come down to what you stated. The country has always voted around 50-48 with a 2% demographic that is swayed from one party to the other.