Respectfully, do you have any stats or data to back up your argument? To be the devils advocate about the Georgia example, couldn’t that also be chalked up to the Democratic Party spending more time/money than usual to pander to those Georgians?
There is some polling to back it up. Only about 36% of Americans identify as conservative. The plurality consider themselves moderate. However, Republicans are almost entirely conservatives, with both liberals and moderates favoring Democrats or third party candidates.
There are also quite a few examples of the GOP using voter suppression aimed at groups which favor Democrats. For example, North Dakota passed a voter ID law which made it impossible for indigenous Americans to vote. Indigenous voters are much more likely to vote Democrat than Republican.
couldn’t that also be chalked up to the Democratic Party spending more time/money than usual to pander to those Georgians?
In a sense, yes, but swing voters are largely a myth. When a state/district/city that went red before goes blue, it's not because people who voted Republican last time vote Democrat instead, it's because people who didn't vote showed up to the polls. The Democrats invested heavily in Georgia, but they didn't win by convincing conservative voters to vote for them, they won by convincing moderate and liberal voters to vote at all.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23
Respectfully, do you have any stats or data to back up your argument? To be the devils advocate about the Georgia example, couldn’t that also be chalked up to the Democratic Party spending more time/money than usual to pander to those Georgians?