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brooklynite

(94,738 posts) Fri Mar 21, 2014, 01:26 PM Mar 2014

Proof The Republican Party Can’t Be Moderate, In One Graph

PrimaryColors.net:

The Primary Colors algorithm was created primarily to identify low-value Democrats in safe districts for primary challenges — but it can show us other things as well.

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Obviously we’d expect Democratic politicians to vote more conservative the more conservative their district gets, and more liberal the more liberal their district gets. And by-and-large, they do.

But Republicans don’t really follow that trend, as you can see in red on the graph below:

If you only take away one thing from this graph, it should be that the expected value for Republicans is nearly a perfect horizontal line. Translated into plain English, that means Republicans vote conservative almost no matter what. It doesn’t matter what type of districts they represent.

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Proof The Republican Party Can’t Be Moderate, In One Graph (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2014 OP

Some remaining GOP non-nuts PATRICK Mar 2014 #1

The GOP has flatlined pscot Mar 2014 #2

PATRICK

(12,228 posts)

1. Some remaining GOP non-nuts

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 01:38 PM

Mar 2014

are beginning to get the picture, but they are more helpless than a progressive in the Dem Party. The graph shows what it demands, a total flight from democracy and representative government, something they openly noised about in the 2000 election before fraud worked so well for them.
On the lower levels, functional and voter accountable GOPers get nervous but the impetus on the state and national levels is driving to maintaining power by other means. Don't care about their pols, their own yellow dog voters or any relationship between them.

Of course, in a true dictatorship who wants to rely only on a single-minded ultra minority party? They might but it would take a lot of constant flim flam and expensive maintenance. The GOP will suddenly become not worth the price should they fail while we still have something left of a democracy. The pressure is always on to get the Dems moving the same way.

Time, I suppose, is on our side, if there is time.

pscot

(21,024 posts)

2. The GOP has flatlined

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 01:43 PM

Mar 2014

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