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What are major reasons why Republicans support the death penalty?
Polls (in 2015 and 2019 by Pew Research Center) suggest that more Republicans in the United States favor the death penalty compared to Democrats. This was surprising to me, because I thought ...
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How is the term Fascism used in current U.S. political context?
Recent Italian political election brought to power three political parties which are generally referred to as “the Right”. The bigger party (headed by current PM Giorgia Meloni) is actually the one ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives? [closed]
In America at least, there tends to be far less unity within liberal factions when compared to conservative ones. One just has to point to the last few presidential elections.
2008:
There was a ...
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Why do 3rd party voters in the US seem to lean right politically?
In the United States, there are 2 major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. However, not every vote is cast for one of those parties when other candidates run. In ...
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What do woke and cancel groups call themselves?
I'm aware of "woke" and "cancel culture" being used by conservatives as pejorative terms and by others as non-pejorative attempts to describe the visible trend of fierce protest ...
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Do major parties have explicit long-term agendas?
Major parties in two-party-dominated states (e.g. US and UK) have clear reputations, we can look at the laws they pass and listen to what pundits say about them. I have never read a manifesto (maybe I ...
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Did Twitter's unbanning of accounts equally unban left and right leaning accounts?
There is a lot of debate over Musk's recent actions with Twitter, which basically boils down to whether it is better allowing freedom of expression and/or countering Twitter's previous left leaning ...
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Were Bernie Sanders's primary voters really that socially progressive?
In Bernie Sanders's campaign for president, he focused on economic issues. One thing that I found strange following his style of campaigning is that he seemed to try to reach out to social ...
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Why are Progressive Democrats having more success in primaries than America First Republicans?
An interesting trend seems to be apparent in primaries in 2022 for various offices. It seems like Progressive Democratic primary challengers generally outperform America First Republican primary ...
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Why are White Americans in the Southern region of the USA much more conservative and Republican than elsewhere?
Election results and polling show that White voters in the South are the most Republican and ideologically conservative in the entire country. This is especially evident in the votes cast in counties ...
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Are there any major left-wing conspiracy theories in the USA?
Related: Why does it seem like US conspiracy theorists are overwhelmingly Republican-oriented?
The question above explores potential reasons why belief in conspiracy theories is more common among the ...
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Is the Democratic Party pushing America to the left? [closed]
I watched a video that said that Republicans pushed the nation to the right. But I am getting the sense that Republicans are in a sense "maxed out" in pushing to the right ideologically.
Are ...
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Why does gay marriage support seem to be "inversely" racially polarized particularly comparing White and Black Americans?
When voters are asked "do you support gay marriage", about 60% say yes. In addition it said only 50% of Black adults/reg voters support it, while 60% of white and Hispanic voters do.
This ...
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Why does it seem that social issues are overtaking fiscal issues in the USA when it comes to vote choice?
One thing that I have noticed is that social issues are becoming more pertinent to our political values, while economic/fiscal issues are often secondary. Examples:
The Rio Grande Valley, a ...
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Has the American left abandoned the anti-war movement?
I know this is highly subjective, but it seems to me that since roughly the 2008 presidential election, the American left has been placing less and less emphasis on issues relating to war and peace. ...
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Do more voting rights really make it harder for Republicans to win?
Also, if there is truth behind Republican support to make voting more restrictive for people in general, how long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
Why
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Reference Request: A book that explains the origin of the American political left & right
In 2011 spring, in college, someone recommended a book to me. The book was assigned as a political science reading in an undergraduate introductory level political course they were taking at Johns ...
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Did the connection of party and ideology lead to red states and blue states becoming a thing?
I was reading about history and politics. Ideology and party were not closely related. This is pretty hard to imagine but it was true.
People from the other party would occasionally cross over to vote ...
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Why is ideology not strongly associated with partisanship at the state level?
It is said that Democrats are the liberal party and Republicans are the conservative party. However, the correlation is a lot weaker at the state level.
Examples:
New Mexico was rated as more ...
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Why do veterans skew right in the US?
I know the military is supposed to be apolitical to a certain degree. But I have found a Pew poll saying that military veterans lean right. This is more pronounced when comparing younger vets to ...
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Why are Democrats more consistent across generation?
I was reading an article in the Pew Research Center. It was talking about generational change.
For example, it showed a large increase in Gen Z Republicans saying blacks can't get ahead of whites ...
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Did the two major parties switch their ideology position relatively sometime in 20th century? [duplicate]
I have heard that probably sometime in the 20th century, the two major political parties of US switched their ideology position relatively. Is that true?
To these days, some politicians of the ...
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Are Americans with strong ideological views less likely to be independent?
I asked another question that sounds similar. I was thinking about political independents. I was wondering if they are less likely to have strong views on issues. This would make sense because ...
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Is ideological sorting unevenly distributed geographically?
I was thinking about whether or not ideological sorting is geographically uneven. This was shown when someone said California is more Democratic but Vermont is more Liberal.
The Washington Post wrote ...
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Are liberal republicans concentrated in the Deep South?
I saw another question asking why Bernie Sanders has a high approval among Republicans. I wrote in the comment that it could be because of racial bloc voting in the south where most whites vote ...
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Why have Democrats been consistently identifying as liberal in the US?
I was thinking about ideology of Democrats and how it has changed. For example, we can go to the progressive movement started by the candidacy and unpopular election of Donald Trump. (By unpopular I ...
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Is the US public asymetrically polarized? [closed]
I read about asymmetrical polarization in the federal government. It said that Republicans became more conservative more than Democrats became more liberal in Congress. I have found that the opposite ...
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Is the idea of positions on one issue showing the likely position on another issue a new phenomenon?
I want to know about the fact that certain positions seem to be tied to ideology which is in turn tied to partisanship. For example, the issue of gun control. Supporting gun control is strongly tied ...
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Do the leads of left-leaning candidates tend to grow as more votes are counted in US elections? [duplicate]
I have seen that Hillary Clinton's pop vote lead grew as more votes were counted. For the first example, in a video by Fox News, Clinton won the popular vote by 1.7 million votes, and she won by 2.9 ...
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Are moderate voters less reliable than nonmoderate voters?
I am curious about the bipartisan divide in this country. But there is an additional segment that Gallup says makes up about 36 percent of people: moderates. Is this segment less civically engaged ...
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Roughly how many people associated with Antifa ideology have been charged following investigations into terrorist incidents in the US?
According to a 2018 CRS report:
Presumably, the
Bureau would investigate antifa followers suspected of
criminal activity as domestic terrorists, categorizing them as
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What percentage of African-American Republicans are conservative?
I saw a Gallup article that says that 69% of Republicans overall identify as conservative. I am thinking about a small proportion of Republican voters which is a large proportion of Democratic voters: ...
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Why did communism not succeed in the USA?
Did the Communist Party in the USA, or any other ideological party other than capitalism, ever gain considerable power in the USA, and why is capitalism still the leading ideology in America?
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Why doesn't the US have a "Center Party"? [duplicate]
As I understand the US system, there is the Democratic Party & Republican Party, whose members come from two wings: the moderates (center), and the left (Democratic) or right (Republican).
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Is there a tendency, in the United States, to ask for altering machine translation algorithms to use gender-neutral language and gender pronouns?
Note: this somewhat related to my previous question
This article deals with what seems to be gender bias in machine translation:
"Our results show that male defaults are not only prominent but
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In terms of US politics, has protecting taxicab operations from competition been a left-wing policy?
Because of the limited space available, the title could be raising an unanswerable question. Given changes over time and the variety of viewpoints within the left wing, the answer could depend on ...
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Is there a push, in the United States, to use gender-neutral language and gender pronouns (when they are given)?
I have just read a tiny fraction of a huge amount of content generated by the apparent abusive dismissal of an important moderator from the Stack Exchange network.
An answer that tries to explain one ...
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What happens if the border wall resolution veto is not overridden by Congress?
After the veto, if Congress does not overturn, what are the options to prevent the national emergency declaration from moving forward?
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How does Donald Trump define the word conservative?
Ronald Reagan's rise to prominence was built on the conservative intellectual movement and the thinking of figures like Russel Kirk, Frederick Hayek, Frank Meyer, Irving Kristol,and William F. Buckley ...
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What does Farrakhan mean by "false Jews"?
In a speech of his, Farrakhan referenced "false Jews":
These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral ...
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Political leanings of academia and of think tanks
Why is it that the left seems to form their intellectual tribes in academia and the right seems to form them in think tanks?
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Is the Democratic Party actually a left wing party? [closed]
The terms left wing, centrist and right wing are all relative of course. The Democratic party is generally supportive of gender equality issues and LGBT rights, more sympathetic to immigrants. But the ...
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What caused a massive shift in Republican ideological trajectories in the late '70s?
On a post on Skeptics.SE I saw recently, there was a chart showing the ideological position of the political parties over time:
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As you can see, both parties were drifting more liberal ...
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In the US why is nationalism equated with racism?
From Wikipedia:
There are various definitions for what constitutes a nation, however, which leads to several different strands of nationalism. It can be a belief that citizenship in a state should ...
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What is the Alt-Left?
What is the Alt-Left and how different are they from the Far-Left or Ultra-Left?
Are they similar to the Alt-Right in any way?
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Are "left leaning" and "liberal" the same?
In the recent James Damore Google memo he says
Google leans toward left and that 'political orientation is actually a result of deep moral preferences and thus biases.'
The question is "is left ...
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What exactly are Donald Trump's views on "small government"?
A large fraction in Republican Party in US is what's known as "small government" faction. Their guiding ideological principle is to reduce the size and/or power of Federal government (and they ...
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Are we currently seeing another ideological realignment happening in today's unstable political climate? [closed]
Are we currently seeing another ideological realignment happening in today's unstable political climate?
Similar to how, in the years since the WW2 post-war period, the main political parties ...
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Have the Republican and Democratic parties "swapped places" in some ways?
I was just reading about the left-right political spectrum and that reminded me: I once read that the Democratic and Republic parties, over time, have swapped places in some way, so that the ...
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What is the 'Alt-Right'?
Recently, Clinton gave a speech in which she claimed that the majority of Trump supporters were young, tech-savvy, enthusiastic, radically right-wing individuals who have taken over the Republican ...
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