![]() ![]() In analyzing how the responses differed, Pew ended up dividing politically engaged voters into eight groups. 1) Pew splits the politically engaged public into eight groups Pew Research Center But in a system with two major parties (and a media environment that often lacks nuance), your choice about which statement you most agree with - or which one you’re most repelled by - can be very revealing. Still, it's true that this format doesn't allow for much moderation or nuance. The actual survey respondents could also volunteer that they’re unsure or don’t know. The questions present respondents with a stark choice between two very different options: Instead, in surveys this summer of about 5,000 people, Pew asked respondents several ideological questions, and then used statistical techniques to try to figure out the clearest way to divide respondents’ views into a series of coherent groups. To them, it’s not all about Hillary voters versus Bernie voters, or Trump populists versus establishment Republicans - what people actually believe creates divisions that are more complicated than that. Pew's analysis stands out from standard polls because it doesn't simply sort Americans by demographic factors like age, race, and gender, and instead finds divisions within political parties that don’t fall along typical lines. But now the Pew Research Center has come along to try to make sense of just what Americans are thinking, with a new edition of its study of Americans' political typology - its first since 2014. ![]() US politics has gone in some pretty strange directions lately. ![]()
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