https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024-elections\/24058352\/what-were-getting-wrong-about-2024s-moderate-voters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A final chunk of Americans are a rare breed in America\u2019s political parties. They don\u2019t fit neatly on the ideological spectrum; on the partisan spectrum, they tend to lie outside the political parties. Some academics, like Fowler and his team, call them \u201cidiosyncratic\u201d moderates, but I think \u201cweird\u201d is simpler since it describes just how difficult they are to read.
\nUnlike disengaged moderates, weird moderates are engaged \u2014 aware of political news, policies, and debates \u2014 but like disengaged moderates, they hold a mix of opinions. They aren\u2019t really drawing those positions from the ideological extremes, so they tend toward moderation on a variety of issues. Because of the weird mix of ideas they have, they might not feel represented by either party or by a specific conservative or liberal ideology. They also include your classic \u201csocially liberal but fiscally conservative\u201d types who might have been more predominant in the Democratic and Republican parties of less polarized times. They\u2019re not consistently liberal or conservative on all topics and therefore are open to persuasion. They hold the opinions they do have strongly, unlike the true moderate, but feel overlapping pressures when making a decision in the voting booth.”<\/p>\n
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“The imperative to persuade true and weird moderates runs counter to the trend of America\u2019s political parties, which have been moving further to the political left and right while also becoming more ideologically consistent internally \u2014 pushing out moderates of all kinds. Party leaders have been leading this push, but the rank and file has followed suit in the last two decades, as rates of self-identified moderates have been on the decline in both parties.”<\/p>\n
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