Plenty of New Yorkers who voted for Zohran Mamdani in last month’s City Hall election previously backed Donald Trump at the ballot box, despite their obvious political differences, new data reveals
Not a you specific thing, but I hate when people cite these stats as though they’re significant, but in reality they are pretty standard for the past decade at least. I know people mostly do it because the media highlights them without comparable information or context and it just sticks in people’s heads. Plenty of people think things must be meaningful or significant just because there’s a headline, but this is not a new phenomenon.
Data shows that in 2016, these [Obama] voters comprised roughly 13% of Trump voters. In 2012, this segment of voters made up 9% of total Obama voters.
Yes, I agreed that it was a dissatisfaction thing, I was just commenting in the context of the whole thread where some are suggesting it’s because people have left the Trump cult or that it’s about charisma or whatever. This 1 in 10 figure is pretty standard now. I’ve made the argument previously that it really is more about ignorance than dissatisfaction, because truth be told I’m probably more dissatisfied than any of those crossover voters and I can actually list real specific reasons. You have to be really ignorant to think that this sort of crossover voting is good, regardless of if the person you’re voting for seems like an outsider or not. But yes, long story short, disruption seems to be a big part of it.
I think the common theme is dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Estimates are that 6-12% of Sanders primary voters voted for Trump in 2016. The specific ideology of the candidates was likely less important than the promise to dismantle the establishment.
Not a you specific thing, but I hate when people cite these stats as though they’re significant, but in reality they are pretty standard for the past decade at least. I know people mostly do it because the media highlights them without comparable information or context and it just sticks in people’s heads. Plenty of people think things must be meaningful or significant just because there’s a headline, but this is not a new phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama–Trump_voters
I agree that one of the themes is dissatisfaction though.
That still follows the logic though. Obama was seen as the disruption candidate in 08.
Yes, I agreed that it was a dissatisfaction thing, I was just commenting in the context of the whole thread where some are suggesting it’s because people have left the Trump cult or that it’s about charisma or whatever. This 1 in 10 figure is pretty standard now. I’ve made the argument previously that it really is more about ignorance than dissatisfaction, because truth be told I’m probably more dissatisfied than any of those crossover voters and I can actually list real specific reasons. You have to be really ignorant to think that this sort of crossover voting is good, regardless of if the person you’re voting for seems like an outsider or not. But yes, long story short, disruption seems to be a big part of it.
There were Perot voters in the 90’s, some had the same sentiment.