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2-Party System? Americans Might Be Ready For 8
« on: October 25, 2017, 01:01:08 AM »
Interesting read... Hard to say anyone fits into the two categories we have now, maybe more likely that people fit better into one of the 8 categories?

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There is a political crackup happening in America.

There remain two major political parties in this country, but there are stark fissures within each. There seem to be roughly at least four stripes of politics today — the pragmatic left (think: Obama-Clinton, the left-of-center establishment Democrats), the pragmatic right (the Bush-McCain-Bob Corker Republican), the populist right (Trump's America) and the populist left (Bernie Sanders liberals).

The 2017 political typology: Anchored by Core Conservatives, Solid Liberals
But a new political typology out Tuesday from the Pew Research Center, based on surveys of more than 5,000 adults conducted over the summer, goes even deeper. It finds eight distinct categories of political ideology (nine if you include "bystanders," those not engaged with politics).

1. Core Conservatives — 13 percent of the general public
2. Country First Conservatives — 6 percent
3. Market Skeptic Republicans — 12 percent
4. New Era Enterprisers — 11 percent
5. Devout and Diverse — 9 percent
6. Disaffected Democrats — 14 percent
7. Opportunity Democrats — 12 percent
8. Solid Liberals — 16 percent

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559774933/2-party-system-americans-might-be-ready-for-8
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