Andrew Kohut of Pew Research is the father of one of my close high school friends. He ran Gallup back then, but he’s been with Pew for a couple of decades now. He has a big article in the Washington Post about the radicalization of the Republican Party. He has some interesting statistics, but what I noticed is that his polling found that what I’ve been saying is accurate.
According to our polling, three factors stand out in the emergence of the GOP’s staunch conservative bloc: ideological resistance to President Obama’s policies, discomfort with the changing face of America and the influence of conservative media.
I don’t think it takes a genius to figure these things out, but it’s nice when someone actually does some study to verify hypotheses.