Shane Goldmacher @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social · 20/08/2025NEW at NYT: The Democratic Party is facing a voter registration crisis in red, blue and battleground states alike — losing ground to the GOP everywhere. My deep dive into the numbers and what it reveals about the party's brand. Thread —> www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u... 8418367
Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Isn’t this typical of what happens during fascist consolidation, Shane? People are afraid to donate and volunteer. It’s how Putin eliminated his opposition. 000
Antifahhh @lunaticleft.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It's the GENOCIDE, stupids. Ignoring it doesn't make it invisible, and they will pay again come election time if they don't quick change course. 040
Liz Lizardbreath @lizlizardbreath.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Now compare that to those that have gone 3rd party or no party. 000
Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Facile, shallow analysis, no words on Indies committed to non GOPRussia candidates, a growing number. "There are still more Democrats registered nationwide than Republicans, partly because of big blue states like California allow people to register by party, while red states like Texas don't" 150
Officer_Spooky🎃 @officerzack.bsky.social · 21/08/2025And they still want to be bipartisan with Republicans 010
Sillychillly @sillychillly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social Yo dude you wrote a whole article about Dems voter registration woes and didn’t include unaffiliated. WTF Youre hurting the party by missing the main issue. People are disillusioned with the Dems and republicans and are registering as unaffiliated. Check these pics 2210
BBDewz @bbdewz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025In light of the past six months and current approval ratings of Trump and polling on generic ballot party preferences, this analysis seems a bit dated. 160
drama @withdrama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025i guess telling a bunch of people you dont need their vote because you'll replace them with moderate republicans wasn't exactly a winning formula 0140
Muffin @montrealmuffin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025They should really try standing for something for a change. 070
G̟͇̺r̙̞̪o͙̘g͓͓̺ D͔͙̼a̢̼̺ C͎̘̦h̫͎a̠̘͚o̡͇s͓̦ G͔̞̫o̞̙͓b͓̠̻l̦͚͇i͇͉̝n̡̘͍ @goblinenterprises.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Maybe they should stop fucking throwing marginalized demographics to the wolves, and stop trying to court shithead conservatives? 040
Cair @calydo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Why does the NYT want democrats to fail. Why can’t you publish how poor Trump’s and MAGA’s polling numbers are and make THAT the top headline news. Oh wait….. can’t bite the hand that feeds you or risk the wrath of the orange Führer. 011
Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Why vote for Republican-lite candidates when you can have the real thing? The Democratic Party is cooked for a generation -- specifically until its current center-right leadership is dead or retired. 0142
Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What of #Michigan? There were many voters in Detroit who didn’t vote. 000
💙⚡❤️ The Haunted Typewriter 💀 @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Sounds like they are going independent because the Dems are too lite on fascism and not embracing Democratic Socialism, to me. 030
COIndependent1 💙💛💙 ⬜️ 🟦 @coindependent1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025So why are they BEATING the REPUBLICANS in every SPECIAL ELECTION? And trump is desperately begging the States to GERRYMANDER some more House Seats to protect him from getting IMPEACHED? Whose WATER are you carrying? 010
pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 20/08/2025People need to register as Democrats so they can vote in the primaries and get a better choices to go up against the GOP in the general election. 000
Dwayne R @braveheart69.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Democrats could mop the floor with Republicans..... IF Democrats REALLY listened to citizens and became the political party that actually represented the poor and working classes. 010
Thelonious Punk ✌🏻❤️✊🏻 🇵🇸🍉 @dorianwallace.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This crisis stems from their listening problem. 030
Fred…just Fred @fredems13.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Are you taking into account voter purges by GOP admins? 010
Glen Jackson @glenjackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Sorry, I don’t trust anything that the invite times puts out about Democrats 020
Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Why fight for a party that won't fight for you? 171
Wake Up '92 @wakeup92.bsky.social · 21/08/2025How much are fearful lefties refusing to identify or answer? I'm sick of the party, but I will vote for it to get out from under authoritarianism. But am I gonna tell you that? Nope. 010
deniselouis.bsky.social @deniselouis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Shane i heard you on Here and Now today and you're scaring the bejeepers out of me. Is there any good news for Dems. 000
Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Sorry I can’t see the article, but…why do you keep saying 2020 to 2024? Isn’t it normal that people swing back from a party? What is the data from 2025 (properly normalized)? 000
Beowulf (live on stage) 🏳️🌈 @bigbadbibear.bsky.social · 01/10/2025It's probably because they fucking suck OP 000
Mary and the moon @deannyg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and their minions fully killed the Democratic Party in June 2024. 000
SoCalTrueBlue @socaltrueblue.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What a bunch of bullshit you have written, run back over to twitter and bow down to your MAGA base that buys into your crap. 010
PM @ohmyyy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025making genocide acceptable and telling your supposed base they are too greedy asking for nonpoverty incomes and basic services.... can be a downer. 070
laylaohgee.bsky.social @laylaohgee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It happened. It is not still happening. Be an actual reporter and don’t refer to 2020-5 data as if it’s a trend now. 010
Reid Mac🌹🏳️🌈✌🏻 @reidmac1985.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Maybe, juuuuuust maybe, national dems shouldn't be sitting on their hands? 0100
Tristan Johnson @stepback.nebula.tv · 20/08/2025I'm just spitballing but maybe shutting down every progressive and proudly declaring that you can win without offering anyone anything isn't working out. 0477
blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025And if you are talking about Dems, how about you point out how Dems have been better for the US than GOP? That’s right. You won’t and will never 021
blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It’s remarkable that @nytimes.com and Goldmacher spend hours and thousands of words investigating Dem registrations. Did they do any investigating Epstein in 2016? No because the story was broken by Julie Brown. 1/2 143
ConstantlyDumbfounded @imdumfounded.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Party registration is a lagging indicator. People change their voting patterns long before they change their registration. It tells us nothing about the future. Disgruntled Trump voters will not be visible in current registration numbers. Other better indicators tell us Dems are surging. Just sayin’ 010
Perfect Orb 🍄 @perfectorb.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Being a party of lazy useless cowardly sacks of shit will do that 010
azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 21/08/2025bsky.app/profile/azur...@azurevista.bsky.social@azurevista.bsky.socialThe Democrat Corporation isn't a political party in any meaningful sense. It's a public works programme for nepo babies & consultants. They're complicit with MAGA, hence they appointed Merrick Garland, knowing his role in ignoring 24 eyewitnesses who said other Nazis helped McVeigh carry out OKC. 010
Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The permanent Republican majority Karl Rove boasted of during the Bush Presidency is finally here. 000
Ole Danielson @oledanielson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Only getting sideliners off the benches will get enough voters into the game so the dictatorship is stopped 010
Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Corp Democrats suck demon cock, but the Trump GOP is an obvious pile of cancerous dysentery. I can understand Dems losing voters, but not Republicans gaining any. Maga; fuck yourselves in the face, then go burn in hell. 000
ifollowonlyos.bsky.social @ifollowonlyos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This information feels dated to be honest and feels like it culminated in 2024... parties often get reignited by "out of power" midterms 000
RP @george73.bsky.social · 21/08/2025And yet, democrats either won or over performed in every special election this year. In addition, the generic vote polls have democrats ahead of republicans by several points. 030
lurkerbluesky.bsky.social @lurkerbluesky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Who cares. They saw large upticks the year before the election and then many of the mopes sat home and whined because they didn't get the candidate they wanted. House was won by 3-4 seats. Senate won by 2-3 seats. Presidency won because 32% of the electorate voted for Him while 31% voted for Her. 000
Blame Tag 🏷️ @blametag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025bsky.app/profile/blam...Blame Tag 🏷️@blametag.bsky.socialDemocrats strategizing for the midterms: 1321
Opera Joe 🎼🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘🇬🇱 @operajoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Admit it. Republicans dominate the news outlets, and the propaganda is everywhere, even at the NYTimes. With the “both sides” news delivery, liars always win. If you’re looking for a reason, that’s it. 010
RimageV in Louisiana @rimagev.bsky.social · 20/08/2025It reveals that the country wants a psychotic dictator running things. 000
Dale Richard Duncan @drd88.bsky.social · 20/08/2025But all of that is changing since your daddy took office. 020
Dennis Maxwell @dmax12345.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Is it really losing ground to the GOP? Or are fewer folks registering a Dems because they think the party is useless but will likely vote for individual Dem candidates? That’s where I am. I am unaffiliated. Luckily NC is an open primary. 061
Mr. Pig @mr-pig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It's almost like the Democrats are collaborators and acquiescing to fascists 071
themischiefprince.bsky.social @themischiefprince.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Maybe they shouldn’t have rehabilitated George W Bush, and Dick Cheney. Maybe they should’ve put that entire administration on trial? Maybe they shouldn’t have spent years saying the nation needs a strong Republican Party? Maybe they should’ve fought republicans harder than they have the Left? 722623
Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Lmao they straight up stole my vote and now they wanna cry?? bsky.app/profile/jnxo...Ouaquaga on Chenango@jnxouaquaga.bsky.social....my registration still shows as fine and utd, but every time I vote I'm not on the rolls and they make me file a provisional ballot. When they ran Biden I finally said fuck it and stayed home for the first time. And no liberal cares. So? You want my vote? What fucking vote??? 050
Spooky Movie Time Spoodle @spookymovietime.bsky.social · 20/08/2025voters: look neoliberal policy hurts us and is bad Dems: screw you, here's another Pete Buttigieg word salad voters: stop using our tax dollars to help Israelis bomb refugee camps Dems: we're accepting the endorsement of the Cheneys *Dems lose* Dems: those UNGRATEFUL PEASANTS won't vote for us 0321
Queernan the Barbarian @meatpopsicle.bsky.social · 20/08/2025They can go straight to hell. If they run Gavin Newsom I hope they lose 3741
DracoDracul @mattilda-dracul.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I can't imagine why a party that has proudly declared that they stand for nothing and no one is in collapse. 020
David @davidfaltz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This data seems dated at this point. We already knew this from the outcome of the 2024 election. A lot has happened since then. 020
Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Gee I wonder why this is happening. Maybe they should move even harder to the center (aka right aka fascism). It’s obviously working so well for them. 060
Kayla 🌊🏳️⚧️ @lokimodir.bsky.social · 20/08/2025they're gonna get the complete wrong message from this 060
Pot Smoke Phoenix @potsmokephoenix.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The Democratic Party is useless and powerless against a Nation that wants to be subjugated and lorded over. 030
the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 21/08/2025I'm not politician but I'm guessing it has something to do with the Democrats promoting genocide in Gaza, throwing trans people to the wolves, and focusing exclusively on their stock portfolios. 0110
kyulen742 @kyulen742.bsky.social · 21/08/2025If Democrats hadn't supported genocide, maybe Harris would've won and their approval rating wouldn't be so low right now. www.middleeasteye.net/news/biden-v...middleeasteye.netBiden voters passed on Kamala Harris because of Gaza, new poll showsSurvey found that Harris lost 'because of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians' 100
John Smith @johnsmithrlperson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025dang thats crazy man, wonder what causes this kind of thing, oh well I guess its a mystery good luck next election everyone www.newsweek.com/democrats-wa...newsweek.comDemocrats want party to move right, poll findsA new Gallup poll shows that Democrats are eager for the party to move more moderate than four years ago. 000
Nathan Lewis @nlewis1111.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Aren't the #'s all from 2024? Why the old data? Haven't Dems been winning a lot of special elections? 000
gnielsen49.bsky.social @gnielsen49.bsky.social · 21/08/2025My favorite bullshit response: ‘Democrats stand for nothing”. WTF! Wake up. They stand for universal healthcare, higher taxes on the wealthy, women’s rights, the environment, voting rights etc etc.., Again, WTF!!! 361
Shane Goldmacher @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social · 20/08/202530 states plus D.C. allow for partisan registration. Between 2020 and 2024, Democrats lost 2.1 million voters in those states. GOP gained 2.4 million. But those topline figures are just the start... nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u... 14410
Lenna @lennalenna.bsky.social · 20/08/2025No one wants to vote for the Democrats because the Democrats don't stand for anything. They're spineless Republican-lite They need to show that they are an actual opposition party that stands by the people and not corporations Until then, what good are they? 41828
VileEvilLevi @vileevillevi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Maybe, I dunno, try offering a better future like Mamdani is doing? Or become an actual opposition party? Or perhaps don’t support Israel? Or talk to voters instead of consultants? 11075
Abomba_Zachar @abomba-zachar.bsky.social · 20/08/2025AZ registered Democrat since 18, first Obama term. About 2 years ago switch my registration to Independent. Had to stop voting for people funded by AIPAC. Reuben Gallego was the last and a regret. 3360
Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What you havent realised is democracy is done in America. 2024 was the last free and fair election. Registration is entirely irrelevant since many of them will be barred from voting 000