Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.salon.com/2026/01/19/some-trump-voters-are-sneaking-away/

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened.

Link to the actual analysis in the article. https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-to-trump-has-been-higher

Salon is generally garbage.

In the first year of Donald Trump’s first term as president in 2017, the share of Americans calling themselves Republicans (or independents who leaned toward the Republican Party) dropped just 2 percentage points — from 42% in 2016 to 40% by Q4 of 2017. I predict it will surprise many people to hear that the Democrats didn’t actually change their advantage in party ID much at all in Trump’s first term, expanding their advantage to +7 in 2018 from +6 in 2016.

In Trump’s second term, however, the Republican Party is shedding members at a much higher pace. Gallup released its latest party identification data this week, and the numbers show Republican identification dropped from 46% in 2024 to just 40% in Q4 of 2025 — a 6-point decline, triple the 2-point drop during Trump’s first term.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.salon.com/2026/01/19/some-trump-voters-are-sneaking-away/

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened.

Link to the actual analysis in the article. https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-to-trump-has-been-higher

Salon is generally garbage.

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/19/some-trump-voters-are-sneaking-away/

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened.

+1, thank you PP

(I was the one who posted about the media)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is, and has always been, the media and the way information is conveyed. If you're in your rightwing influencer bubble and believe every word they say, of course you're going to have a very different opinion that the rest of the world. Some Republicans probably snapped out of it if they say some of the Renee Good videos, but if they were only watching Fox news and the video they showed that appeared to bump the ICE officer, with all the commentary going in the direction of intentional violence against him... the majority of not-super-bright viewers will just accept that as gospel.

The media IS the problem. And left wing media is problematic too, in its own way - it's just currently, it's not outright lying to the American people like the other side is doing.

Which outlets are "left wing" as opposed to, you know, just telling the truth? Because I can name the several right wing outlets and platforms that do nothing but lie, including now, CBS.

PP you replied to. Well I was mostly thinking back to pre-debate Biden days when the leftwing media were not asking hard-hitting questions about his fitness, at a time when the rightwing media was already all over it... which they were correct to do. They unearthed videos that leftwing media never showed, and dissected them, and they were entirely accurate in their assessment that he was too old for the job. Funny how they can't seem to make an accurate assessment today with Trump, even though he's now in worse shape than Biden.

All media just presents their own version of reality, but some media are worse than others.

Have to disagree. The whole Biden aging thing was overblown completely. He was slowing down to be sure, definitely physically more tired and that made him stutter more and they acted like he had full on dementia. But most of the nonsense about him was overblown and pure malicious speculation on the part of the RWNJ liars. NOW we actually have a POTUS with full on dementia and they act like it's normal.

There is NO COMPARISON to the damage being done by the current, aged, demented POTUS who was already unfit to serve in this office basically his entire life and who is surrounded by a corrupt and incompetent administration who refuses to follow the Constitution and observe the normal separation of powers to a slowed down Biden surrounded by competent people in the administration doing their jobs and continuing to follow the Constitution. There is NO F-in Comparison to the constant lies and propaganda from RWNJ "news" sites and channels and the other groups trying to report actual news. FFS. I'm so tired of the both sides BS. It's just not true.

Anonymous wrote:

How is “embarrassed” not up there

Anonymous wrote:Rasmussen!

Generic Ballot Polling:

🔵 DEM: 47%
🔴 GOP: 41%

Rasmussen / Jan 14, 2026

lol-even the reddest of pollsters can’t hide the obvious anymore. Let’s hope that Trump doesnt drag us into wwIii before the change

Rasmussen!

Generic Ballot Polling:

🔵 DEM: 47%
🔴 GOP: 41%

Rasmussen / Jan 14, 2026

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is, and has always been, the media and the way information is conveyed. If you're in your rightwing influencer bubble and believe every word they say, of course you're going to have a very different opinion that the rest of the world. Some Republicans probably snapped out of it if they say some of the Renee Good videos, but if they were only watching Fox news and the video they showed that appeared to bump the ICE officer, with all the commentary going in the direction of intentional violence against him... the majority of not-super-bright viewers will just accept that as gospel.

The media IS the problem. And left wing media is problematic too, in its own way - it's just currently, it's not outright lying to the American people like the other side is doing.

Which outlets are "left wing" as opposed to, you know, just telling the truth? Because I can name the several right wing outlets and platforms that do nothing but lie, including now, CBS.

PP you replied to. Well I was mostly thinking back to pre-debate Biden days when the leftwing media were not asking hard-hitting questions about his fitness, at a time when the rightwing media was already all over it... which they were correct to do. They unearthed videos that leftwing media never showed, and dissected them, and they were entirely accurate in their assessment that he was too old for the job. Funny how they can't seem to make an accurate assessment today with Trump, even though he's now in worse shape than Biden.

All media just presents their own version of reality, but some media are worse than others.

Anonymous wrote:The problem is, and has always been, the media and the way information is conveyed. If you're in your rightwing influencer bubble and believe every word they say, of course you're going to have a very different opinion that the rest of the world. Some Republicans probably snapped out of it if they say some of the Renee Good videos, but if they were only watching Fox news and the video they showed that appeared to bump the ICE officer, with all the commentary going in the direction of intentional violence against him... the majority of not-super-bright viewers will just accept that as gospel.

The media IS the problem. And left wing media is problematic too, in its own way - it's just currently, it's not outright lying to the American people like the other side is doing.

Which outlets are "left wing" as opposed to, you know, just telling the truth? Because I can name the several right wing outlets and platforms that do nothing but lie, including now, CBS.

The problem is, and has always been, the media and the way information is conveyed. If you're in your rightwing influencer bubble and believe every word they say, of course you're going to have a very different opinion that the rest of the world. Some Republicans probably snapped out of it if they say some of the Renee Good videos, but if they were only watching Fox news and the video they showed that appeared to bump the ICE officer, with all the commentary going in the direction of intentional violence against him... the majority of not-super-bright viewers will just accept that as gospel.

The media IS the problem. And left wing media is problematic too, in its own way - it's just currently, it's not outright lying to the American people like the other side is doing.

Anonymous wrote:

Negative 18 on Venezuela. MAGA told me that it was a 90/10 issue and DCUM was completely out of touch

It might be what MAGA voted for, but remember, Trump didn't even get a majority of the votes.