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What divisive issues are least correlated with political alignment (e.g. whether you're on the left/right)?
Inspired by this reddit post that shows that ones opinion on AI-generated art/text is basically independent of whether one is a Democrat, Independent, or Republican.
My question is: what big issues ...
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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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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
Politico's March 22, 2023 McCarthy’s newest challenge: Keeping the House GOP peace on war power includes the following:
Should a standalone war powers repeal bill come up, only a handful of ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
(Not sure if this should be on the Economics SE or Skeptics SE)
The first source is this, from which there is an image:
This clearly implies that the US federal budget decreased under Obama, Carter, ...
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Why are there only the Democratic party and the Republican party currently in the US?
I was looking at the history of the political parties, and I found out that John Adams was a member of the Federalist party, while his son John Quincy Adams was a member of Thomas Jefferson's ...
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Why the Democratic exuberance and Republican dejection about the 2022 US midterm elections?
I don't know much about politics, but I'm very curious about the reaction to the midterm elections. Although, as of right now, the Republicans are still leading or tied for both the House and Senate, ...
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Why do Democrats and Republicans ignore public opinion polls on major issues? [closed]
When polled, the majority of Americans consistently believe in (1) a national health care plan; (2) increased taxes, not fewer taxes, on the wealthy; (3) and more, not less, environmental regulation, ...
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What are the most important reasons that large urban centers in the U.S. tend to lean towards democrats?
There are many candidate explanations for this: the relatively less important role of religion, the relatively higher level of education, the fact that living in crowded areas leads people to ...
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Why is Georgia turning blue rapidly?
Georgia seems red from the beginning of the 21st century. In this time voted presidents from republican party. Both the senators are from republican party. Even in the last election when there was ...
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Is an expansion of the US Supreme Court really possible?
With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, the idea of expanding the US Supreme Court has caught fire among some Democrats. With a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, prominent progressive ...
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Is it legal for the US private company to provide services depending on political party?
Read about US company "Fortitude Ranch", specializing on providing secure vaults, who would open it's "survival camps" at the election day.
Can such company theoretically provide ...
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
It's hard to be on the Internet currently without encountering heavy criticism of prominent Republican politicians over Trump nominating a Supreme Court justice so close to the 2020 US election. As ...
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Why do Black voters in the USA not vote Republican? [duplicate]
This research by the Pew Institute breaks down demographic voting data from the 2016 election. Pew found that Hillary Clinton (Democrat) won Black voters by an 80% margin (88% to 8%).
Is there any ...
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Are there more Democrats than Republicans in the United States?
I have been thinking about the Democratic Party and whether or not its members are more numerous than the opposing faction.
Evidence to suggest this is the case:
This party is expected to win the ...
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Why are Deep South states said to vote so lop-sidedly Republican, when they have high percentages of African Americans?
States like Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, have in the range of 30% African Americans, who, from what I can tell, vote about 90% Democrat. Yet these states vote reliably Republican.
What is the ...
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