don't normally do this but considering andy already tweeted it out i'll say this if you're catching this show on the NUMBER_TOKENth tonight we are going to have james o'keefe andy no and libby evans all in the same show cause we're crazy and this should be a wild conversation so again we're gonna have a members only podcast there as well so check out that show at NUMBER_TOKEN pm tonight that being said smash the like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends let's read this story from gallup they report on average americans political party preference in NUMBER_TOKEN looked similar to prior years with slightly more u.s adults identifying as democrats or leaning democratic than identified as republicans or lean republican now they want to say however the general stability of the full year average obscures a dramatic shift over the course of NUMBER_TOKEN from a nine percentage point democratic advantage in the first quarter to a rare five-point republican edge in the fourth quarter democrats trying to save face will say in the year NUMBER_TOKEN democrats held an an advantage by three points of republicans but if you actually break it down by quarter and probably my month you can see that republicans have consistently been growing in party size and democrats have been shrinking you know i i passively identified as a democrat back in the day you know eight years ago maybe NUMBER_TOKEN years ago and then just hard to consider myself independent because i don't know anything about the democratic party you know back then and i didn't want to be involved i said independent independent i still consider myself there for the most part but it's interesting to see what will happen when many people who are formerly democrats now have no problem and overtly come out and say they are republicans they say these results are based on aggregated data from all u.s gallup telephone surveys in NUMBER_TOKEN which included interviews with more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN randomly sampled u.s adults my friends this is not just some fly-by-night pollster asking a hundred people this is NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. a massive sample size massive now if you get like NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people in a sample size and you've got a pollster what they do is they'll strategically target certain areas of the country to try and figure out what they think the general population feels about a thing that could be tough because those polls may not be that great NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN randomly sampled u.s adults seeing this shift now that's massive it's entirely possible that it's a telephone survey and i'm here to be reasonable and give you real facts and as a telephone survey could it be that um the people more likely to answer their phone are probably older young people like texting and posting on social media so when they see a number they don't recognize they click end i know i do is that older folks more likely to answer the phone if that's the case could it be that's why we're seeing this ski republican because older people are republican it's possible and i think it's fair to bring up but when we're looking at one year it's not like all the old people just aged out in a few months suffice it to say the same people were answering the phones throughout the year it's one year and thus i think the shift is legitimate i think the democrats are collapsing
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN don't normally do this but considering andy already tweeted it out i'll say this if you're catching this show on the NUMBER_TOKENth tonight we are going to have james o'keefe andy no and libby evans all in the same show cause we're crazy and this should be a wild conversation so again we're gonna have a members only podcast there as well so check out that show at NUMBER_TOKEN pm tonight that being said smash the like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends let's read this story from gallup END_INTERACTION_TOKEN