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Progressive Democrats are as divided as their party
By Kent R. Kroeger (March 19, 2019)
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This is the fourth essay in a series dedicated to analyzing the U.S. eligible-voter population using the 2018 American National Election Study (ANES), an online survey administered in December 2018 by researchers from the University of Michigan and Stanford University. __________________________________________________________________
According to an analysis of the 2018 ANES, Progressive Democrats represent roughly one-third of the American eligible-voter population and two-thirds of all Democrats; and, by some accounts, are the ‘center of gravity’ in American politics today.
But the progressives have a problem. A big problem, if they want to win back the presidency in 2020.
Progressive Democrats are deeply divided. That is does not sound like a breaking news story to anyone that has followed politics in the last two years.
But the usual media narrative goes something like this: Establishment Democrats, centrist and pragmatic in nature, are being pulled (presumably against their better judgment) to the far left by their progressive counterparts in the party.
