There's this substack, "Strength In Numbers," run by a data guy, G. Elliott Morris. He used to be the editorial director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he ran the data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight. Before that, he was the data journalist for The Economist, and runs his own consulting firm, Morris Predictive Insights.
And he just came up with some interesting polling on Democrats versus Republicans.
In his new February poll, 53% of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans. An identical percentage — 53% — say the same about Republicans.
He tested out the "Democrats are too liberal and need to tack to the center" theory, and concluded the opposite.
"When Americans say Democrats are “out of touch” they don’t only — or even primarily — mean “too progressive.” This type of thinking is another example of people committing the Strategist’s Fallacy instead of thinking about what is really being measured by the poll question being asked.
But it's pretty wonky, go read the whole thing. He concludes:
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