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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by munk-a on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:59PM (#26020363)
The issue is that if you ask different people in the country which party that "one" is - you'll get a fifty-fifty split.
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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by jdub on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:27AM (#26024242)
It's more like a persistent 60/40 (or optimistically 70/30) split, but it's understandable that some people are simply wrong.
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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by leesalminen on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:08PM (#26020468)
Exactly this.
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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by DubiousPusher on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:46PM (#26020796)
That doesn't make them correct. Constantly averaging your position is a good way to get dragged in the direction of the outlier.
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Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t... by munk-a on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:50PM (#26020838)
It doesn't make them correct but it means that we've got a pretty gigantic societal issue to deal with.
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