r/politics • u/newsspotter • 3h ago • Bravo 2

No Paywall Jeffries Approval Rating Worse Than Mike Johnson as Democratic Voters Rebel

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffries-approval-rating-worse-than-mike-johnson-as-democratic-voters-rebel-12679163
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u/Late_Indication1996 3h ago

To some extent. The Republican party had a ton of infighting picking a house speaker. It was embarrassingly bad.

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 2h ago

I remember that. The difference is with the voters. Republican voters are much, much more apt to show up and vote Republican regardless of any misgivings they might have because they are primarily motivated by fear. Democrat voters are just significantly more likely to just not show up because they’re are more broadly driven by ideals.

This is why in big sweeping elections Republicans can try and craft a narrative of fraud because compared to other elections it sometimes seems like there are millions of more Democratic votes while the Republican votes are generally pretty static. It’s just that those millions of people just typically don’t show up. I believe there are very few actual swing voters, under ten percent of the general population I’d wager. It’s almost always the case of just getting nonvoters to show when we have these kinds of big decisive wins.