{"id":15816,"date":"2025-10-21T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=15816"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:51:03","slug":"the-parties-are-losing-thats-why-theyre-redrawing-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=15816","title":{"rendered":"The Parties Are Losing. That&#039;s Why They&#039;re Redrawing Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partisan affiliation in the U.S. has sharply declined over the past two decades. Today, only 28% of Americans identify with either the Republican or Democratic party, down from 34% in 2004. This drop in party loyalty helps explain the rise of the independent voter, who now make up 43% of the electorate. But just as the electorate becomes less partisan, the political system is becoming more so &#8211; thanks to recent gerrymandering in Texas, California, and potentially many more states. It&#8217;s no wonder so many Americans are walking away from the parties that have spent more energy protecting their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partisan affiliation in the U.S. has sharply declined over the past two decades. Today, only 28% of Americans identify with either the Republican or Democratic party, down from 34% in 2004. This drop in party loyalty helps explain the rise of the independent voter, who now make up 43% of the electorate. But just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15818,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions\/15818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}