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The Window keeps moving for one simple reason.
The GOPs vote in every election. They may hate the candidate but if they've gotten the Party's endorsement they'll vote.
The Left keeps waiting for the perfect candidate to come along...
Republican voters (especially the radicals) throw a fit and stay home or vote third party whenever they don't get their way. Because they've done this, the Republican party has learned to fall in line behind what they want, and so they vote for it. Even so, the Libertarian party regularly gets triple the votes of the Greens and the last major third party candidate drew votes primarily from the right. The right is constantly whining about "RINOs," and if you go into most right-wing circles and try the shit liberals do with the left, "Sure you might not agree with their stance on abortion, sure they're going to regulate your guns, but if you don't fall in line, you're not a 'real' right-winger," you would be bullied and laughed at.
Liberals think it's the opposite because they're obsessed with making sure every single person falls in line without a single condition. Absolutely no respect for anyone's moral convictions (in contrast to the right). So anyone who ever tries to hold the democrats to a standard is the most important thing ever, whereas on the right it's just normalized and accepted because it's so common.
There is no data whatsoever that supports your narrative, and it also doesn't make any sense. There are so many more "my way or the highway" types on the right, this is the culture that produces soverign citizens who are the ultimate expression of "refusing to compromise your beliefs even when it's completely unreasonable and out of line with reality," and libertarians and such are just a lighter version of that.
Democrat voters throw a fit and stay home or vote third party whenever they don’t get their way…
Are you sure you got that right? Republicans fall in line to vote no matter who. Dems want their personal issue addressed before they’ll vote.
If only. Green Party consistently gets votes in the low single digits. Jill Stein got one half of one percent in 2024. That's beyond embarrassing, and I say that as a Green. Other leftist parties get even less.
I wish somebody had thrown a fit over Harris. It might've done some good. The few people who did try to hold her feet to the fire over Gaza were either mocked or ignored. As it was, none of that legitimate criticism got through, so the campaign just crashed and burned.