On Polls
By Democratic pollsters are contorting themselves to try to reconcile the claim that voters are closet doctrinal moderates or centrists with victories of members of the Democratic Socialist party. As numerous people have suggested, maybe the median voter isn’t tracking the minutiae of whether a candidate is considered right, left, centrist, moderate, or beyond the pale by the pollsters.
Maybe the voters are responding to candidates who offer a hope of secure health care and affordable day to day experses along with a modicum of fight against the people, like those behind data centers, who are offering to make their lives worse. Maybe on-the-ground organizing is an additional factor.
Maybe, further, smiling some of the time and acting as if the candidate likes the voters is a positive. Oh, and look at Donald Trump’s unpopularity numbers.
I don’t know anything about polling, but what I see is getting more and more complicated. Stealth rightwingers like Third Way are stirring the pot. But maybe stand back and consider that some of the categories themselves are confusing an interpretation of the voting.