A batch of private GOP polling data obtained by Axios revealed that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy is wildly unpopular with independent and undecided voters, raising “alarm” among the president’s team and the president himself."I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy. He wan...
  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    There is no such thing as an independent in the United States. It has been code for “conservative” for decades and its a core part of Trumps base.

    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
      52·
      1 day ago

      I’ll disagree here. I’m one of those mythical independent voters. I have no party affiliation, and subscribe to Jefferson’s philosophy:

      I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

      However, most conservatives see me as a lefty, because most of my views, especially on social issues, are consistent with left-wing policies.

    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      24 hours ago

      Several states don’t have party registration, my swing state included. That changed after I first registered to vote so I’m not sure what my registration looks like now; I can’t change it even if I wanted to. This has the effect of making everyone in the state, at least those who registered since the change, an independent voter, even if they are party loyalists. They simply don’t have a choice to be anything but independent.

      So while it may be true that there are no undecided voters, that’s not really what they are looking at.