Because of the shift towards automatic voter registration, Massachusetts Independents are now leaning more left than they typically do.
as of November 2023, outnumbering both major political parties. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-1 ratio; nearly 30% of voters are registered Democrats and just 9% are Republicans.
The extra step creates more work that some may not be inclined to do since Massachusetts has semi-open primaries, meaning voters do not have to be registered in a specific party. Because of the shift toward AVR, Massachusetts independents are now leaning more left than they typically do. This isn’t necessarily a change in independents’ attitudes, more so that there are more of them now while the margins for Democratic office winners have stayed similar.. “But now that there’s so few people enrolled in either party, it is that there are more Democrats entering on a broad category or more Democratic-leaning voters entering that unenrolled category.
Republicans have held on to the office of the governor for most of the last three decades, even as progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley proved victorious in congressional races.
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