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According to Pew’s most recent National Public Opinion Reference Survey (Feb–Jun 2025), 46% of Americans identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and 45% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affili...

In a truly random U.S. sample you would expect Republican identifiers to be nearly as numerous as Democratic identifiers.

Not sure where you got your numbers from.

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Those in the United States who choose to contribute to a collaborative encyclopedia likely don't mirror the population as a whole; it's reasonable to assume they're more formally educated and more technically oriented, traits that tend, on average, to correlate with liberal or left-leaning political views.

I think I may have been working with outdated figures. Things are worse than I thought and I hate the democratic party lol

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