Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
Perhaps this will help.
Indeed.

I give short-shrift to the term "independent" voter. These people are partisans like everyone else, but are too cowardly to state openly their political affiliation. I challenge the notion that there are voters who vote for both parties consistently.

Oh there are indeed independents but from personal experience the real independents don't make a big deal of it.
And in the pre-Trump years there was a tacit acknowledgment that more independents were sorely needed.

What the amateur* pundits and railbirds don't seem to realize yet is just how much of an impact January 6th made on the voting public, and I don't mean in the polls, I mean in the national consciousness.
We have crossed a kind of rubicon where elections cannot be trusted anymore and where the basic concept of the rule of law doesn't carry any weight like it used to.

We are in a kind of pre-Joni Mitchell moment where we really DON'T know what we've got till it's gone.
*(by amateur I simply mean those who are not currently employed by a news media outlet or professional polling organization)

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