Democrats see 103 percent increase in Pennsylvania voters leaving the party
www.newsweek.com
In Pennsylvania, nearly twice as many registered Democrats changed their party affiliation this year, compared with 2023.
    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      2 months ago

      I’ve discussed it elsewhere in the comments. The reason why more people changed their party affiliation in 2024 than 2023 has absolutely nothing to do with them being Democrats or not, but the article has constructed this bizarre artificial lens to look at that fact through, that lets them pretend that it had something to do with them being Democrats, and imply that that means people overall are leaving the Democratic party, when that has nothing to do with the data they’re looking at.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        sorry we are repeating this in another thread, I didn’t realize I replied to the same person twice. But I do want to leave this here for context.

        To me it does seem a little concerning that democrats have lost more registrations than republicans:

        This year, 48,702 Republicans switched parties, with 24,046 changing to “other” and 24,656 becoming Democrats, around a 67 percent increase in Republicans leaving the party.