CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling in the Democratic Party on views toward Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday and marveled at the massive shift in attitudes, declaring he’s “rarely” seen anything like it in his many years of looking at polling data.
Enten spoke to anchor Kate Bolduan in the context of Zohran Mamdani’s sweeping victory over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary last week.
“What are we talking about here? All right, who do Democrats sympathize more with: Israelis or Palestinians? In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points—more with the Israelis than the Palestinians. But look at this sea change. Now, Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points.Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position. And that is part of the reason why Mamdani was able to do so well in this primary, because those attacks over Israel, simply put, did not ring true for Democrats”
Maybe something happened that caused the shift? Hmm, what could it be?
Don’t say it or you’re an anti-semite. Shocking that opposing the murdering and starving of people is antisemitic.
Was right on the tip of my tongue, but can’t quite come up with it. Something about a gen or side? Something like that I think.
genside? generation? genetics? idk
Now that trump is implementing centrists’ only policy for them, they have to pretend to dislike it.
3 months back .world would have banned you for even suggesting genocide is bad.
I’ve been banned from three communities for precisely that. One of them even tried to get the admins to ban me sitewide for it.
The fuck are you on about, mate?
This community and others on .world downvoted and banned people because they didn’t support the Gaza genocide and didn’t like that both major parties supported it.
If you don’t believe me, you’re ignorant of this place.
This is a misrepresentation of what happened. We downvoted you for making bad election choices.
I voted for harris, and absolutely no centrist has ever cared. They don’t want to hear that their beloved genocide is wrong. There is nothing more to it and there never has been.
Seems oversimplified, but also, why are you talking to centrists?
Say that democrats have no business selling weapons for genocide and they’ll talk to you. I can’t imagine why you have never encountered this phenomenon.
I was here. You’re making shit up for the purpose of… shitting on a Lemmy instance? Get a life, dude.
Oh yes I’m making it up, just don’t check modlogs or the communities about reporting moderation on it. That’s too much to ask for.