I think it's interesting that democratic disapproval tops out at -8. Maybe it's because these are cities, and you could get something approximating Republican numbers if you included Bumfuck, Missouri.
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Interesting that San Antonio scores so high with Republicans. It's a super-majority non-white city that went strongly for Harris. It's only beat out by Nashville so perhaps this is just measuring "would I want to spend a vacation weekend there"?
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah I wonder what numbers they’d get if they asked Democrats about, like, “rural Alabama”
jul 23, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Democrats who were surveyed are way too positive on Miami.
jul 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Incidentally, it's weird St. Louis isn't on here.
jul 23, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
But I think it's plausible that the real problem here is that, as always, Democrats just refuse to hate Republicans as much as they deserve.
jul 23, 2025, 3:55 pm • 58 6 • view
I don’t think older democratic leaders understand just how much republican children are taught to hate “those bleeding heart liberals,” as my family would say
jul 23, 2025, 4:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Although, the D numbers seem more rational overall. The R numbers are all over the place.
jul 23, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it just looks that way because of the sorting. If you sorted it by R approval, you'd be like "ah, yeah, those are all the cities with lots of black people"
jul 23, 2025, 4:02 pm • 3 0 • view
I had that thought, but LA vs. Baltimore?
jul 23, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I bet that's just recent news
jul 23, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
interested in the 7% of republicans who have different opinions on Bakersfield and Fresno
jul 23, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Are they similar? I know Bakersfield is pretty Republican
jul 23, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
All I think I know of them is that they're both mid-sized cities in California's central valley. I can't imagine most people outside California have nuanced opinions of the difference between the two.
jul 23, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Every fucking time like clockwork
jul 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Now that you mention it St Louis is conspicuously missing from that list.
jul 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
the delta between long beach and LA is very funny
jul 23, 2025, 4:15 pm • 4 0 • view
lol at Bakersfield being -24 among republicans. That’s like the epicentre of inland California conservatism. Although I guess even they hate Kevin McCarthy.
jul 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 7 0 • view