| Kasz216 said: Ah, i see what your saying... however the one thing I'd caution you about that may be clouding it is the East coast West coast effect. Essentially, if one side is winning lopsidedly on the east coast... like Obama in 2008. The losing party tends to not show up on the west coast. While the winning party gets energized and goes out to vote despite victory being all but locked up to be part of the victory. Polls generally do try and model their surveys based on race and such afterall. It's not like they just count every person who answers the phone as one vote.
"Republican" as a dirty word though I mean in a more general sense. Sure republicans don't like democrats, democrat's don't like republicans... however even if you were a hispanic conservative who votes mostly conservative I don't think you would want to be labeled a republican, is what i mean.
It's like if your ever having a political conversation with a bunch of friends and your all seemingly agreeing. Chances are, the guy who isn't talking and just nodding his head probably disagrees... and just doesn't want to have that conversation. |
That effect is interesting. It is clear that people are clearly affected by the attitude their party or canidate portrays. That is why on here I generally portray a positive message to those I that agree with me. For one, because the data that is the only thing we have to rely on to who is probably winning is way more positive for the Democrats. Also,because this place is not a United front like other political places, it has a lot of people trying to muddle the facts with vertbiased data. For example, those that only are talking about a small minority of polls versus showing a clearer picture of averages. The media does this all the time.
I also have been taking on the Poe effect in terms of writing on politics here because it can often be the best method to laying things out clearly.
The race thing is only brought up because it is significant,and of course it does not need to be dwelled upon. Of corse, each party does look at different races and sexes to look at ways to hit the magic spot to get the most of them on their side.
I think that the only people that want to be labled Repulicans are those that do label themselves that, yes. A lable of unaffiliiated to me would just say I am open to other parties besides one.
Yes, when you have a reputation amongst people it does make sense that that those that do not agree remain silent. The worst cases of this example are when people are being rude, taking advantage of those, or being prejiduce.
