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This useful answer would even better if it included the dates of the polls. It's possible to follow the links, but links are impermanent shifty things...
– agc
Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 4:46
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Historically, the main divide has been between officers and enlisted men. Enlisted men tend to have the politics of a demographically similar slice of Americans or to be only slightly more conservative. Officers have tended to be extremely conservative with GOP v. Democratic shares (excluding don't know and don't answer) as much as 9-1 for which even a 3-1 would be a remarkably poor performance relative to historical trends.
– ohwilleke ♦
Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 19:02
See Time (2012) swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/… "between 1976 and 1996, the share of senior military officers identifying itself as Republican jumped from one-third to two-thirds, while those claiming to be moderates fell from 46% to 22%. Senior military officers who described themselves as liberal fell from 16% in 1976 to 3% in 1996."
– ohwilleke ♦
Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 19:13

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